NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.,
Sept. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/
-- Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) announced a new five-year
commitment to help advance the United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals to help improve the health and well-being of men,
women and children around the world. Johnson & Johnson is
dedicating its expertise and innovations to ignite global
partnerships and catalyze efforts through a variety of new
implementation plans, targets and metrics. The announcement comes
along with an expanded commitment by Johnson & Johnson to
further strengthen the resilience of refugee and displaced children
and their families in Syria and
its neighboring countries where the need is greatest.
"Johnson & Johnson is committed to creating greater access
to quality health care across the globe," said Johnson &
Johnson Chairman and CEO Alex
Gorsky. "Beyond developing medicines, equipment and
vaccines, we're in communities helping expectant mothers take
better care of themselves and their babies during pregnancy. We're
training nurses and doctors to identify and treat diseases, and
also funding medical research. We're proud to take a leading role
with the world community in this effort, which will go a long way
toward creating a healthier society."
PLEDGE TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Johnson & Johnson announced its pledge of support of the
United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals at an event
hosted Monday in conjunction with the United Nations General
Assembly in New York entitled "A
Roadmap to Advance Human Health." Johnson & Johnson convened
more than 150 key thought leaders in global health and development
to explore the importance of an integrated, multi-sector approach
to improve the course of human health.
This commitment to advance the Sustainable Development Goals
focuses on five key areas where Johnson & Johnson can optimize
its diverse expertise, capabilities, collaborations and resources
to make scalable and sustainable impact in promotion and
advancement of the health workforce, women's and children's health,
ensuring access to essential surgeries, environmental health and
global disease challenges.
The initial five-year phase of this commitment will include work
to specifically ensure:
- 175 million individuals will benefit from Johnson & Johnson
solutions that prevent, control and eliminate global diseases.
- 650,000 health workers will receive development and training
from us and our partners to enable delivery of better quality
health care.
- 50 million people will have access to safe, essential and
timely surgical care.
- 60 million women and children will receive support and tools to
enable a healthy future.
- The one million people we touch every day who inspire our
action will benefit from our improvements to the sustainability of
our business, products and solutions.
Johnson & Johnson will work with partners across its global
network to implement the plans to meet these targets over the next
five years. The commitment further aims to mobilize and inspire our
employees, consumers, partners and communities across the world to
improve health globally.
These efforts will build on the success of the Company's
previous commitment to the United Nations Millennium Development
Goals and Every Woman, Every Child which has helped improve
the lives of more than 400 million people from 2010 to 2015 by
working on the front lines of care with numerous partner
organizations. These include Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital,
CARE, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, mothers2mothers,
Save the Children, The Task Force for Global Health, UNICEF, and
the United Nations Population Fund.
The Johnson & Johnson commitment to the Sustainable
Development Goals and continued efforts toward greater world health
and well-being also will be spotlighted at the fifth Global Citizen
Festival on September 24 in
New York City's Central Park.
Visit http://www.abetter2030.jnj.com/ for more information on
the Johnson & Johnson commitment to the Sustainable Development
Goals.
AID FOR REFUGEES
Johnson & Johnson has been helping to improve the lives of
refugees around the world by addressing immediate humanitarian
needs such as access to quality health care and clean water. The
Company's support focuses on the sustainable long-term recovery of
impacted communities, and is grounded in educational programming
and community-building initiatives for displaced families.
Today in New York, Mr. Gorsky
participated in The White House Leaders' Summit on the Global
Refugee Crisis. Hosted by United States President Barack Obama, this CEO roundtable meeting aimed
to galvanize significant new commitments to increase funding of
international organizations leading humanitarian efforts and
appeals to help refugees find safe resettlement opportunities
through legal pathways and to increase refugees' transitions to
self-reliance through education and employment
opportunities.
At Tuesday's meeting, Johnson & Johnson announced another
expansion in its support for the Syrian refugee crisis. The Company
committed an additional $1 million to
support "resilience activities" to be partly managed in
collaboration with global partner, Save the Children on the ground
in Syria and neighboring
countries. Resilience activities include programs that support
educational and life skills for children, mental health
(psychosocial) support for children and families to help them heal
from traumatic events, and the building resiliency of adult
care-givers through community-building initiatives and programs for
parents. This expanded commitment builds on a $1.75 million commitment made in November 2015 to support the humanitarian needs
of refugee children and families in neighboring country
Lebanon along the transition
routes into Europe.
Johnson & Johnson's summit participation comes on the heels
of Stories of Human Kind, an awareness campaign launched with Save
the Children on Facebook. The multimedia project depicts the
struggles of refugee families through a series of short films
called "Searching for Home." The project documents stories from the
Tempelhof Airport Refugee Camp as families work to navigate a new
reality and attempt to normalize their lives. Stories of Human Kind
expands on the long-standing partnership between Johnson &
Johnson and Save the Children, and the ongoing work to support
refugee children and their families through quality medical care,
educational programming, community-building activities, access to
food and clean water and advocacy for the establishment of child
protection standards.
To view the Stories of Human Kind videos, visit
https://www.facebook.com/jnj/.
ABOUT JOHNSON & JOHNSON
Caring for the world, one person at a time…inspires and unites the
people of Johnson & Johnson. We embrace research and science -
bringing innovative ideas, products and services to advance the
health and well-being of people. Our approximately 126,500
employees at more than 250 Johnson & Johnson operating
companies work with partners in health care to touch the lives of
over a billion people every day, throughout the world.
ABOUT SAVE THE CHILDREN
Save the Children gives children in the United States and around the world a
healthy start, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm.
We invest in childhood — every day, in times of crisis and for our
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