IVI, KHFI exchange MOU on joint health projects
IVI Director General Dr. John Clemens and KFHI President Dr.Jung Sup Chung will sign a memorandum of understanding to seek joint projects that address infectious diseases primarily affecting developing country children, at the KFHI headquarters in Seoul on September 18.
Specifically, the two organizations plan to collaborate on the development and field demonstration of multi intervention health and nutrition packages, including vaccines against disease syndromes such as diarrhea and pneumonia, an area where they share interests. These diseases kill at least 2.5 million children worldwide yearly.
The MOU also calls for efforts to mobilize resources to launch and carry out their joint programs in the world’s poorest countries. The IVI currently has partnerships with more than 200 organizations in both developed and developing countries worldwide, including NGOs such as “Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders).” But the agreement is the first such pact exchanged between an NGO in Korea and the IVI, which commemorates its 10th anniversary this year.
“It is hoped that the IVI-KFHI partnership will be a model for global health collaboration in Korea between international organizations and NGOs aiming to benefit developing countries.” Dr. Clemens said. “We hope to expand our collaboration with other NGOs in Korea and elsewhere sharing the goal of improving the lives of the world’s poorest children, as well as international organizations and government agencies.”
About IVI
The International Vaccine Institute (IVI), based in Seoul, Korea, is the world’s only international organization devoted exclusively to developing and introducing new and improved vaccines to protect the world’s poorest people, especially children in developing countries. Established as an initiative of the United Nations Development Program in 1997, the IVI operates under a treaty signed by 40 countries and the World Health Organization, and conducts research on vaccines against diarrheal infections, bacterial meningitis and pneumonia, as well as Japanese encephalitis and dengue fever in more than 20 countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
About KFHI
The Korea Food for the Hungry International (KFHI) is an international non-governmental organization (NGO), which was initially established in 1989 as a national organization affiliated with the Food for the Hungry International (FHI). FHI, which was incorporated in 1971 in Switzerland, runs programs in over 60 countries worldwide. KFHI is the first NGO registered with the Korean government that was allowed to send aid to foreign countries.
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2008년 3월 21일 10:09