GSK and Save the Children Partnership Working Together to Help Save One Million Children’S Lives February 2019 GSK and Save the Children Partnership
GSK and Save the Children partnership Working together to help save one million children’s lives February 2019 GSK and Save the Children partnership
A life-saving partnership
Every day 15,000 children under the age of five die – most from preventable causes.
That’s why Save the Children and GSK joined forces in 2013. By using GSK’s scientific and technical know- how and Save the Children’s on-the-ground presence Kevin Watkins, Rogerio Ribeiro, and expertise, we are finding new ways to bring down CEO Save the Children UK SVP Global Health, GSK the number of children dying from preventable diseases. Over the past five years we have achieved a great deal. And we need to carry on. By delivering long-term health programmes, helping to strengthen countries’ healthcare systems, finding new treatments and advocating for Over the past five years, the GSK and I’m really proud of this partnership and local, national and global change, we are determined Save the Children partnership has fought everything that we are doing for children to help build a world where no child under the age for children every single day. We have by bringing together our unique skills of five dies from preventable causes. reached over 2,800,000 children under and resources. “five with essential quality health services “ Through our work with Save the Children which includes treating over 187,800 in 45 countries, children are surviving children for malaria, pneumonia, or and growing up to live really healthy lives. diarrhoea. To do this, we have gone beyond But there’s a lot that the we can still do. the traditional corporate-NGO partnership As we move into the second phase of model and combined our skills, expertise this partnership, I’m sure we will have and resources to find new ways to reduce the opportunity to achieve even more child mortality. for children in some of the world’s most I am incredibly proud of all that we have deprived communities.” achieved – and I am looking forward Front cover to continuing this pioneering work.” A one day old baby sleeps at the Bungoma County Hospital, Kenya supported by GSK and Save the Children partnership. Photo: Siegfried Modola / Save the Children GSK and Save the Children partnership 1
Meeting Mckline
“In August 2018, I was pleased and privileged to visit Bungoma County in Kenya. I had the opportunity to meet ‘Baby’ Mckline – the first baby born in Bungoma, Kenya in a hospital supported by our partnership. Not a baby any more, Mckline is four years old and a wonderful walking, talking, laughing and football-playing example of what this partnership is all about.” Rogerio Ribeiro SVP Global Health, GSK
Since his birth on 4 July 2014, GSK and Catherine adds: “I saw many mothers Save the Children have stayed in touch die when they delivered at home. When with Mckline and his family and followed I gave birth, the nurses advised me to his progress as he grows and thrives. breastfeed for six months, which I did and I have also taken Mckline to the clinic for Mckline’s parents, Fredrick and Catherine, talk about their experience: “When Catherine all his vaccinations which were free from was pregnant, I advised her to go to the the time he was born. Although sometimes health facility and she managed to attend I lack transport and I have to walk for a long clinic sessions seven times before the distance to the hospital, I appreciate the delivery. When we came back from hospital, treatment and advice from the nurses.” my neighbours were surprised at the Fredrick agrees “Many mothers now come successful delivery of our son. They were to consult my wife and they accept her advice even more surprised that my wife gave birth to go to hospital whenever their children are to a 3kg baby and she did not undergo an sick, and even attend clinic when their child operation. Most people in our community view is small.” the hospital as a foreign and expensive place. They prefer going to the traditional midwives.” Photo: Siegfried Modola / Save the Children 2 GSK and Save the Children partnership
Healthworker applies chlorhexidine to umbilical cord of newborn baby,Bungoma County, Kenya. Photo: Siegfried Modola / Save the Children GSK and Save the Children partnership 3
From mouthwash to potentially life-saving medicine
Sylvia Chepwkemoi is 34 years old and lives in Bungoma County, Kenya with her son Brivian Kiplangat (4 months old) and three older children.
Sylvia lost two of the six children to whom In 2012, a United Nations (UN) Commission Report she has given birth. Her first-born child’s umbilical named chlorhexidine for newborn cord care as an cord was infected and he died 11 days after birth. overlooked ‘life-saving commodity’ that, if more widely accessed and properly used, could potentially save Her most recent baby, Brivian, was born in a health 422,000 neonatal lives over five years. In response, facility in 2017, enabling Sylvia to access chlorhexidine GSK worked to reformulate the antiseptic solution used gel, which she applied to his umbilical cord. His cord did in its Corsodyl™ mouthwash into a gel (chlorhexidine not get infected and healed quickly. Sylvia is grateful her digluconate gel 7.1%, equivalent to 4% chlorhexidine), baby did not get sick and reports that he is doing well. incorporating Save the Children’s expertise in reaching Infection, a major cause of newborn mortality, can some of the most vulnerable and marginalised children. be caused by bacteria entering the body through Insights and guidance from Save the Children informed a newly-cut umbilical cord. This is more likely to key decisions in the development of this medicine. happen in low-income settings across sub-Saharan Over 30,000 newborns in Kenya have so far benefitted Africa and Asia where more births take place at home from the new chlorhexidine gel. and unsterile materials, such as dung and ash, may traditionally be used on the umbilical cord stump.
Sylvia and Brivian. Photo: Ilan Godfrey / Save the Children 4 GSK and Save the Children partnership
The first 5 years at a glance
Over Over Over 2.8m 30,000 £300,000 children under five in newborns treated with saved by Save the Children 45 countries directly reformulation of 1 simple through supply and reached by the partnership ingredient, chlorhexidine, procurement advice to prevent umbilical infections from GSK
Over Over 97,000 100 children under five fully immunised GSK PULSE volunteers placed with Save the Children since 2013 Over Over 187,000 £3.3m children treated for malaria, 2 signature programmes raised by GSK employees Over pneumonia or diarrhoea in the Democratic Republic in over 70 countries and Over of Congo and Kenya have matched by GSK 20,000 helped over 280,000 children healthworkers trained, 300,000 and over 12,000 community healthworkers children helped during and supported after emergencies GSK and Save the Children partnership 5
How together we are helping to save children’s lives
By combining the expertise of GSK and Save the Children, in collaboration with Drive forward the research, Helping to create a world our other partners locally and globally, development and access where everyone has to deliver measurable impact of innovations to address access to the healthcare Universal Innovation critical gaps in knowledge they need, without risk health and research to reduce maternal and of financial hardship coverage child mortality
Vision Strengthening health The end of preventable Use our collective power systems to deliver to create systemic change quality services for death for all children Health system Global thought for children’s health at a children and families in under five global level and inspire poorer communities and strengthening leadership others to act emergency settings
Sharing GSK’s expertise in supply chain, procurement, Inspiring and engaging and management systems Supply, GSK employees to with Save the Children Employee volunteer and fundraise procurement engagement for greater efficency and and quality for the partnership cost saving
Partnership evidence and impact tracker Track progress against our goals above to generate an evidence base for continuous learning and improvement 6 GSK and Save the Children partnership
What we are doing in countries and communities
Universal Health system health coverage strengthening (UHC)
We are supporting governments in Our flagship programme in Nigeria We are strengthening health • O ur health system strengthening countries where we work to achieve aims to drive transformational change systems in all contexts to programmes in over 25 countries, measurable progress towards for universal access to infectious increase our impact for children which are working to accelerate UHC – to help create a world in disease prevention, protection and in poorer communities and newborn and child survival for the which all people have access to the treatment – generating new evidence fragile emergency settings. hardest-to-reach communities health services, vaccinations and and scalable solutions to save through our joint areas of expertise We intend to help reduce the medicines they need, without risk children’s lives from leading causes deterioration of health services, • Increasing the global capacity of of financial hardship. of preventable death. and save lives during emergencies, our emergency preparedness and By leveraging each other’s unique In Ethiopia we are expanding our child when children and their families response capabilities, to play a key capabilities and our joint voice, we immunisation programme in some of are most vulnerable. role in effective and timely healthcare are combining programme activities, the hardest to reach areas, to increase responses when crises hit The activities span our programmes evidence generation and advocacy for access to critical vaccinations for across the world, including: • P iloting an approach to adapt the greater impact. We are using infectious those children left behind and reduce delivery of our projects in rapidly diseases as a proxy to understand the impact of infectious diseases. • O ur major programme in DRC, changing contexts through our the extent to which basic health which addresses the urgent health programmes in extreme and volatile services are reaching the most needs of communities, preparing contexts, such as Yemen marginalised people. Newborn baby Irfan is weighed at a and responding to emergencies maternity clinic in Banke Region, Nepal and strengthening the health systems One year old Suriya Dorcas prepares to receive #UniversalMotherhood. in critical and remote areas. his Yellow Fever vaccination in Kinshasa, DRC. Photo: Diana Markosian / Save the Children Photo: Tommy Trenchard / Save the Children GSK and Save the Children partnership 7
What we are doing in the lab and international arena
Innovation Global thought and research leadership
Driving forward the research We continue to drive increased access Using our joint voices at a global By demonstrating the effectiveness and development of and access and uptake of chlorhexidine, using level to pursue the creation and impact of our far-reaching to innovations addressing critical evidence generated from our work in of systemic change, improve partnership, we are also encouraging gaps to help save the lives Kenya, where over 30,000 newborns children’s health and inspire other best-practice NGO-business of mothers and children. have so far benefitted others to act. partnerships. from the medicine. Our innovation accelerator harnesses Together we talk to and work with Stories from our partnership inspire GSK and Save the Children’s unique We are exploring the feasibility global leaders to help achieve SDG3, everyone at GSK and encourage them strengths and capabilities to address of innovations to tackle some of Universal Health Coverage, with a to continue to fundraise for Save the the critical gaps in knowledge, working the biggest challenges in newborn particular focus on equitable access to Children. All money raised is matched in partnership with other key global and maternal health in high burden medicines and vaccines for mothers, by GSK. health stakeholders to help reduce countries, for example in Kenya where newborns and children under five. morbidity and mortality for mothers, we have the platform and relationships newborns and children under five. in place to deliver, improve and scale-up new, lifesaving healthcare interventions.
Jennifer, 19, at home with her newborn baby Consumer Healthcare R&D scientists, in Guatemala #UniversalMotherhood. Weybridge UK Photo: Carlota Guerrero / Save the Children 8 GSK and Save the Children partnership
Sharing expertise, capacity building and fundraising
Supply, Employee procurement engagement and and quality sharing expertise
GSK is supporting Save the Children “I have been very proud to sponsor the The power of this partnership Skills-based volunteering – ADI, an to deliver $500k in savings per year. sharing of our procurement capabilities is epitomised by the involvement adapted version of GSK’s suite of and talent with Save the Children and efforts of GSK employees management tools, ADP, continues GSK supply and procurement International, with the goal of helping who are inspired to fundraise to be rolled out to Save the Children’s professionals are supporting save more children’s lives.” or volunteer. offices worldwide by an army of Save the Children International’s GSK volunteers. Supply Chain and Procurement team. Gonzalo Bisquerra, Orange United is GSK’s global Vice President of Marketing and Sales GSK is helping to: Procurement, GSK employee engagement programme. GSK employees continue to work in 3 – 6 month skills-based placements • B uild capability through training Over 550 volunteer Orange United with Save the Children in many in negotiation, benchmarking Ambassadors in 51 countries help “I have never experienced such a countries worldwide, as part of and insights GSK employees to raise money for generous and impressive charity GSK’s PULSE programme. Save the Children. All money raised • Improve quality including audits of partnership as this. The hunger (over £3.3 million so far) is matched So far over 100 have been placed suppliers, a handbook and policies to support us as we transform our by GSK and contributes to programme with Save the Children. procurement organisation has been • P rovide secondment support to work in 45 countries worldwide.
increase the capacity of the Save extraordinary.” the Children Procurement Team Jim Ridgwick, Global Head of Procurement, People queue outside a Save the Children Save the Children International GSK Egypt during Orange United fundraising supported pharmacy in Bambari, Central African. week June 2018 Republic. Photo: Mark Kaye / Save the Children GSK and Save the Children partnership 9
Baby Exodus
At six months old, Baby Exodus arrived from South Sudan, with his mother, Stella, at the Bidi Bidi camp in North Uganda. When Stella’s husband was killed, she had decided to flee with her four children. She had to leave everything behind. They fled first to the DRC, but provided with treatment and the conditions there were too was also given routine childhood bad, so they moved on to Uganda. vaccinations. Stella renamed her baby ‘Exodus’ Almost one year later Exodus has after their flight. Her parents are fully recovered and is now full of still in South Sudan. Uganda now has the largest refugee energy. As well as her four children, camp in the world. Save the Children Exodus had been ill for three Stella also looks after a further four. is working in the camps to try and days with a cough, vomiting and She faces many challenges and provide Child Friendly Spaces for fever before he was brought having access to medical services children to play, learn, relax and to the Emergency Health Unit nearby has been very helpful as most importantly to be children (EHU) mobile health clinic. He they can now receive medical help again. Save the Children’s EHU was diagnosed with malaria and quickly when there are issues. was seed-funded by GSK.
Photo: Guilhem Alandry/Save the Children 10 GSK and Save the Children partnership
Benefits of the partnership
The partnership’s main goal is to help families, mothers, Benefits to GSK Awards for the babies and children, who are At GSK, the partnership has improved employee partnership healthier and living better lives engagement as employees associated with the partnership are twice as likely to say they feel Best Business Charity Partnership 2018 as a direct result of our work. proud of working for GSK, and feel more valued in the Health, Beauty & Pharmaceutical sector, and by GSK than their peers. The partnership has also, Beyond the social benefits, for both Business of the Year 2018 Award at the Business in select countries, led to improved discussions Charity Awards run by Third Sector Magazine. organisations this award-winning on public health and/or vaccinations programmes. The partnership has contributed to influential partnership has other benefits. Best Employee Engagement Scheme sustainability indices, corporate brand campaigns at the Global Good Awards 2018 and awards.
The Best Corporate NGO partnership 2018 accolade by the C&E Corporate and NGO Partnerships Barometer for the third year in a row. GSK also named Best Corporate Partner, and Save the Children UK as Best NGO to partner with. Benefits for In the US, GSK, Save the Children US and National Save the Children Center for Disaster Preparedness partnership won the Best Disaster Preparedness & Community At Save the Children, GSK’s sharing of its expertise Resilience Award 2018 in supply, procurement and management tools, has brought real efficiencies and some cost The Social Responsibility Award 2017 savings, money which can be redirected into at the UK Employee Engagement Awards programmes around the world, helping children in some of the hardest to reach communities. The Best Business to NGO Partnership 2016 at the Ethical Corporation’s Responsible Business Awards GSK and Save the Children partnership 11
Where a kid can be a kid Thanks to the support of GSK
Child Friendly Spaces The family ended up in a large evacuation “They love it. They just have the best shelter on the campus of the University time when they go over there,” Lily said, give children a place to of North Carolina. Sadly, Lily learned relaying her girls’ experiences in the play, learn and cope in the storm had devastated her hometown Child Friendly Space. “It’s wonderful the aftermath of Hurricane and destroyed her home. – I’m thankful to have this support in my life right now.” Florence in the US While scared and contemplating her options to get her children out of the Employee donations to Save the shelter and back into a home, she found Children in the US go to their Children’s With her North Carolina home threatened some relief for herself and her children at Emergency Fund, which allows Save by Hurricane Florence’s flood-inducing Save the Children’s Child Friendly Space. the Children to pre-position supplies rains and damaging winds, young single The children’s activity space offered her and staff ahead of disaster events and mom Lily took her four girls under the girls a safe, fun place to play, learn and funds child-friendly spaces in emergency age of 8 to safety, before the catastrophic cope in the aftermath of the storm, while shelters. Employees raised more than storm made landfall. she started to pick up the pieces and $70,000 in 2018 for the Children’s decide next steps. Emergency Fund.
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Email: [email protected] Sylvia Chepwkemoi, Brivian and their midwife, with Pauline Williams, SVP Head of Global Health R&D, GSK and Dr Angela Muriuki, Head of Child Survival, East Africa, Save the Children. Photo: Ilan Godfrey/Save the Children