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Boehringer Ingelheim is engaged in wide-ranging healthcare initiatives to combat AIDS. Furthermore it contributes actively to communities, charitable organisations, science, education, research and environmental protection.

The Boehringer Ingelheim Lung Institute at the University of Cape Town has been set up as a centre of excellence to support clinical trial activities in the country with research facilities in infectious and respiratory diseases.
Gumare, Botswana
  Boehringer Ingelheim South Africa established a partnership with the Government of Botswana to build an Infectious Disease Care Clinic (IDCC) at Gumare. The hospital serves the community for general health care requirements and was officially opened in 2007.
Papua New Guinea
  Some 16,000 of Papua New Guinea's 5.3 million inhabitants are infected with HIV and the infection rate is 1,000 per year. Very few infected people go to health care centres so the figures are likely to be vastly underestimated. Together with other pharmaceutical companies, the Catholic Aids Office, the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine (ASHM) and the government of Papua New Guinea (PNG), Boehringer Ingelheim has designed and implemented a project to train healthcare workers under the auspices of the Collaboration for Health in Papua New Guinea.
Partner organisations
  Boehringer Ingelheim works actively with partner organisations such as

  • ministries of health
  • Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF)
  • AIDS Healthcare Foundation - Uganda Cares
  • Community Health and Information Network (CHAIN) in the Great Lakes Region, Eastern Africa
  • UNICEF
  • German Technical Cooperation (GTZ)
  • German Foundation for World Population (DSW)
  • churches
  • NGOs
Bogor, Indonesia
  Boehringer Ingelheim Indonesia has also instituted a community healthcare programme for people living near its Bogor plant. Free treatment and medicines are supplied by our employees and by doctors and nurses dispensing healthcare to local residents.
San Luis Potosi, Mexico
  Boehringer Ingelheim Mexico funded the building of ecological stoves for a poor Indian community at San Luis Potosi in order to help prevent chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among the inhabitants. Traditional cooking fires in this community had meant that the inhabitants were constantly inhaling damaging smoke.
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