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Family Health International
Mission: "To improve lives worldwide through research, education, and services in family health."
In China since: 2003
Number of staff: 8 national and 2 expatriate
Mainland China contact:
Feng Cheng (程峰)
China Representative 中国区主任
100022北京市朝阳区建外大街永安东里8号
华彬国际大厦1116室美国家庭健康国际北京代表处
Tel: +86 10 85288492
Fax: +86 10 85288496
Activities in Other Countries:
Over seventy countries worldwide
This organisation evolved out of a US government funded fertility research project that begun at the University of North Carolina in 1971. It later incorporated as a non-profit organisation, and has become one of the world’s largest such groups working in international public health. It manages research and field activities in more than 70 countries.
In China, having opened an office in Beijing in October 2003, FHI is working to prevent the spread of HIV, especially among and from high risk groups and also to improve access to treatment, care and support.
FHI is currently implementing two major programmes in China:
- The US Agency for International Development ‘IMPACT Programme’ This is part of a Mekong Regions programme funded by the US government. It includes development of prevention, care and treatment models, capacity building for local partners and knowledge sharing. In China, FHI partners with the Ministry of Health and National Centre for AIDS Control at national level, and with government and non-government partners at local level, to affect HIV transmission trends in migrant and mobile populations. The programme targets areas that are contributing to the sub-regional spread of the epidemic, notably Yunnan, Guangxi and border regions.
- International Technical Cooperation and Training. This project is the result of a contract awarded to FHI in 2000 by the British government’s Department for International Development to establish a resource centre coordinating international technical cooperation and training. Targeting high risk groups such as intravenous drug users and sex workers, the project sought to establish systems, build institutional capacity and model pilot interventions as well as sponsoring research. The future focus will be on capacity building aspects of the programme. As well as working at national level, projects in this programme are implemented in Yunnan and Sichuan.
Aside from these two major initiatives, FHI’s offices in the United States provide technical support for World Bank health projects in China, and also manage a worldwide ‘HIV Prevention Trials Network’ that develops and tests the safety and efficacy of interventions designed to prevent HIV transmission.
In the year ending September 30, 2003, FHI’s total worldwide income was USD 136.98 million. The great majority of this – USD 126 million – came in contract and grant income from the US government, with a further USD 6 million earned from sale of services.
Links
http://www.fhi.org
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