• The Human Impact

• Diabetes has become a critical public health issue in the developing world

  • There are 366 million people living with diabetes, according the Diabetes Atlas published by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF)

  • 4.6 million deaths are due to diabetes each year

  • The World Health Organization expects diabetes-associated mortality to double between 2005 and 2030

• Over 80 percent of diabetes-related deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries

  • China has the highest occurrence of diabetes, with 92.4 million people living with diabetes

  • India is second, with 50.8 million diabetics living in India

• The Economic Impact

• Diabetes is positioned to put significant strain on health systems

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  • Health care spending on diabetes has reached $465 billion USD

  • By 2030, diabetes is expected to have a $490 billion USD impact on the global economy

  • The fastest-growing global economies are also those with the fastest growing occurrence of diabetes

    • Four of the five BRICS countries are on the WHO’s top ten list of diabetic populations (Brazil, Russia, India and China)

  • Several large companies are making a big difference in the course of the diabetes epidemic through workplace programs that include:

  • Corporate health policies covering diabetes

  • Education and risk management

  • Proper case management and screening

  • Ongoing monitoring and evaluation

  • The effective workplace and private sector programs established to address HIV/AIDS are being transformed into tools to tackle the growing challenge of diabetes and other NCDs.

    • NCDs and communicable diseases share many of the same risk factors.

  • BRICS and the disease

    • Countries experiencing rapid economic development are experiencing mass urbanization, changing diets and increasingly sedentary lifestyles, contributing factors for diabetes and other NCDs.

    • How are these nations dealing with the onset of a diabetes epidemic?

    • How are businesses invested in these regions ensuring a healthy workforce?

  • The private sector response to the UN High-level meeting on Non-communicable Diseases

  • Case study – J&J (more NCD)

  • UN HLM take away

  • Issue Brief

  • The GBCHealth Library has a wealth of useful information about diabetes, other NCDs and important related topics like nutrition

• The Human Impact

• AIDS is the fourth leading cause of death globally.

  • Almost 5,000 people die every day due to AIDS.

  • An estimated 25 million people have died from HIV-related causes since the beginning of the pandemic.

• More than 60 million people have been infected with HIV since the pandemic began.

  • Approximately 97 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS live in low- and middle-income countries.

• sub-Saharan Africa is the hardest-hit region and is home to 67 percent of all people living with HIV worldwide.

  • AIDS is the leading cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa.

• 34 million people were living with HIV at the end of 2010.

• Women and girls now comprise 50 percent of those aged 15 and older living with HIV.

• The Economic Impact

• Estimates suggest when the prevalence of HIV reaches 8 percent, the cost in economic growth is estimated at about 1 percent a year.

  • In 2007, prevalence was over 15% in seven southern African countries (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe), and above 5% in seven others (Cameroon, CAR, Gabon, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda and Tanzania).

• Hot Story Topics

• Long history of corporate involvement and the impact these businesses have had over 30 years:

  • Levi Strauss & Co.

  • Chevron

  • Kenneth Cole

  • Virgin Group

  • L’Oreal

• Advocacy for drug access at affordable prices

• Mother-to-Child transmission

  • HIV and women/girls

• HIV and TB – a dangerous tag team threat to health

  • What is being done?

  • How is business adjusting its workplace programs to accommodate both conditions?

• Knowledge as the best prevention

  • Business has created several innovative and engaging media campaigns to raise awareness, educate people about safe sex practices, reduce stigma around the disease and inform those at risk about the disease

• For more information on business action on HIV/AIDS, check out these resources:

• U.S. HIV Initiative Page

• L’Oreal case study

• The GBCHealth Library has a wealth of useful information about HIV/AIDS

• The Human Impact

• 109 countries (representing approximately half of the world’s population) are at risk of contracting malaria

• 247 million cases of malaria are reported each year

  • 86 percent of those cases are reported in Africa

• 881,000 people die each year from the disease

  • 91 percent of those deaths occur in African countries

• An African child dies every 45 seconds from malaria

  • Accounts for 20 percent of all childhood deaths.

  • 85 percent of malaria deaths occur among children under 5 years of age.

• The Economic Impact

• Malaria is preventable and curable

  • Bed nets that prevent the mosquito bites responsible for infection cost $10 USD

  • ACT treatments (the most effective treatment for those infected) cost $6 USD

• Malaria can decrease a country’s GDP by as much as 1.3 percent

• Heavy-burden countries spend up to 40 percent of their public health funds on malaria prevention and treatment

• Hot Story Topics

• Companies engaging in vector control beyond the workplace

• Collective action bringing life-saving bed nets to remote areas in endemic countries

• Innovative vaccines in development

• Antimalarial medication resistance

  • What to do when it happens?

  • What new medications are in development?

• Malaria and HIV – the increased risks and treatment methods that work

• Saving children = saving the next generation that will further grow national economies and become members of local workforces

• For more information on business action on malaria, check out these resources:

• Bed net dialogue

• IRS take away

• CAMA page

• The GBCHealth Library has a wealth of useful information about malaria

• The Human Cost

• TB kills 4,600 people a day

• Some 2 billion people are thought to be infected with the bacteria that causes tuberculosis

• TB and HIV

  • TB is the leading cause of death among HIV-infected people, accounting for 1 in 4 deaths among people with HIV

  • People living with HIV have a 20-37 times greater risk of developing TB than those without HIV

• Drug-resistant strains of TB present difficult challenges in developing nations where access to effective treatment protocols is not consistently available

• The Economic Cost

• TB is curable for less than $10 USD

• 75 percent of TB cases occur in people during their most productive years (15 – 54)

• TB will rob the poorest countries of an estimated $1 to $3 trillion USD over the next 10 years

• Loss of productivity attributable to TB is 4-7 percent of some countries’ GDP

• Hot Story Topics

• HIV/TB co-infection – the challenges and the opportunities for business to change the way it addresses these diseases to ensure better health outcomes in their workforces and communities

• Drug resistant TB and the need to improved treatment protocols

• Which GBCHealth members are leading the charge to develop newer, more effective treatments?

• Sticking to your TB regime – the best way to avoid drug resistant strains

• TB and Russia – the rise of TB in the country and how government, business and civil society are joining forces to eradicate the disease

• For more information on business action on tuberculosis, check out these resources:

• Lilly Partnership

• TB/HIV library information

• TB Issue briefs (3)

• The GBCHealth Library has a wealth of useful information about tuberculosis

The Human Cost

• An estimated 60 million girls are sexually assaulted at or on their way to school every year (ActionAid Report 2010)
• Only 36 percent of girls enroll in lower secondary school in Sub-Saharan Africa—this gender gap has grown since 2000 (UNESCO Global Report 2011)

The Economic Cost

• Adolescent pregnancy can result in a lifetime opportunity cost of up to 30 percent
• Closing gaps in girls completing primary and secondary school can increase GDP by as much as  2 percent annually in some developing countries
• Primary education increases girls’ earnings by 5-15 percent over their lifetimes.
  • Each year of schooling increases a woman’s income by 10-20 percent
•  3/4 of businesses' philanthropic commitments are for less than 3 years and half of those are one-time commitments

Hot Story Topics

• Making men an ally in bettering the lives of women and girls - moMENtum
• The economic power of education: what a difference each extra year in the classroom makes
• Gender-based violence and how it hinders economic and societal growth
• Women, girls and HIV – progress being made for this most vulnerable group

For more information on business action on women’s and girls’ issues, check out these resources:

• HWHE page
• moMENtum page
• The GBCHealth Library has a wealth of useful information about women and girls health and development