FHI 360: Difference between revisions

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| type = [[Non-government organization]]

| founded_date = 1971

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| location ={{flagicon|US}} [[North Carolina]], United States of America

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| area_served = Field Officesoffices in 32 nations <br />Currently Operatingoperating in 70 nations

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| focus = {{Hlist|[[Public health|Public Health]] <br> |[[Internationalinternational development]]|education|nutrition|environment|economic development|civil society|gender equality|youth|research|technology|social marketing|communication}}

| methodrevenue = $790,200,000+ (2019)

| revenueendowment = $652,000,000 (2014)

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| num_volunteersnum_employees = 4,000 employees

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| owner homepage = {{URL|https://www.fhi360.org/}}

'''FHI 360''' (formerly '''Family Health International''') is a nonprofit human development organization based in [[North Carolina]]. FHI 360 servesoperates in more than 70 countries and all U.S. states and territories. Established in 1971, the organization has long managed inmanages projects relating to family planning and reproductive health. In 1986 the organization began a worldwide response to HIV/AIDS.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200807310553.html |title=AllAfrica.com: Nigeria: 4,000 Niger Deltans Benefit from HIV/AIDS Initiative (Page 1 of 1) |access-date=June 19, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090406141540/http://allafrica.com/stories/200807310553.html |archive-date=April 6, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/543854/-/u33ots/-/ |title=Before sex Aids pill trials to start – News |publisher=nation.co.ke |accessdateaccess-date=October 18, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.healthfinder.gov/orgs/HR2995.htm |title=Family Health International – healthfinder.gov – FHI |publisher=healthfinder.gov |date=June 9, 2011 |accessdate=October 18, 2011}}</ref><ref>[http |archive-date=October 10, 2012 |archive-url=https://wwwweb.voanewsarchive.comorg/englishweb/archive20121010050425/2008-03http:/2008-03-02-voa27/healthfinder.cfm?CFID=234618813&CFTOKEN=14512112&jsessionid=8830d1b2935aab5031f9381762382e4f6f20gov/orgs/HR2995.htm ]{{dead link|dateurl-status=Octoberdead 2011}}</ref> FHI 360's research and programs also address [[malaria]], [[tuberculosis]], and other infectious and chronic diseases and international agencies, governments, foundations, research institutions, and individual donors.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.positivedeviance.org/projects/organizations.html?id=116 |title=PD Projects by Organization |publisher=Positivedeviance.org |accessdate=October 18, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|archive-url=httphttps://wwwweb.globalhealtharchive.org/newsweb/article20110929135905/2427 |title=Global Health Council – Family Health International Receives Grant to Evaluate Once-Daily Antiretroviral as a Potential Method of HIV Prevention |publisher=Globalhealth.org |accessdate=October 18, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sphpositivedeviance.unc.eduorg/globalhealthprojects/ogh_student_fellowship_opportunities_1150_6965organizations.html?id=116 |title=UNC School of Public Health – FHIarchive-UNC Public Health Fellowship Program |publisher=Sph.unc.edu |date=OctoberSeptember 629, 2011 |accessdateurl-status=Octoberdead 18, 2011}}</ref><ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=http://www.fhi.org/en/AboutFHI/CorporateReports/index.htm |title=FHI 360 – Four Decades of Improving Lives |publisher=Fhi.orgFHI 360 |accessdateaccess-date=October 18, 2011}}</ref>

Family Health International grew from a contraceptive research project begun at the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] in 1971.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fhi.org/en/AboutFHI/History_Contribution.htm |title=Invalid link |publisher=Fhi.org |accessdate=October 18, 2011}}</ref> An initial grant from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) helped establish the International Fertility Research Program (IFRP), which became an independent, nonprofit organization in 1975.<ref name="autogenerated2">{{cite web|url=http://www.cpc.unc.edu/aboutcpc/history/focus_on/spinoffs |title=Spinoffs – UNC Carolina Population Center |publisher=Cpc.unc.edu |accessdate=October 18, 2011}}</ref> In 1982 IFRP changed its name to Family Health International.<ref name="autogenerated2"/> Since then Family Health International work expanded beyond family planning into other areas of reproductive health research and technical assistance.<ref>http://www.fhi.org/en/RH/Programs/index.htm</ref> FHI investigated and implemented effective ways to prevent [[sexually transmitted diseases]] and enhance the quality of reproductive health services.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fhi.org/en/RH/Programs/crtu.htm |title=FHI 360 – Contraceptive and Reproductive Health Technologies Research and Utilization Program |publisher=Fhi.org |accessdate=October 18, 2011}}</ref> In 1986, FHI began working on early strategies to prevent HIV infection and in 1987 FHI was awarded USAID's first five-year HIV/AIDS prevention program in developing countries.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.globalhealth.org/publications/article.php3?id=611 |title=Global Health Council – Publications |publisher=Globalhealth.org |accessdate=October 18, 2011}}</ref><ref>[http://www.populationaction.org/Publications/Reports/Reclaiming_the_ABCs/USAID_Responds_to_HIV-AIDS.shtml ] {{wayback|url=http://www.populationaction.org/Publications/Reports/Reclaiming_the_ABCs/USAID_Responds_to_HIV-AIDS.shtml |date=20090106065630 }}</ref> Continuous funding since then – from USAID, the National Institutes of Health (NIH),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/MeetingAbstracts/ma?f=102253212.html |title=Family Health International/IMPACT-Ghana's HIV/AIDS program with Faith-Based Partners |publisher=Gateway.nlm.nih.gov |accessdate=October 18, 2011}}</ref> and others – enabled FHI to manage some of the largest HIV/AIDS programs in the world. US Government agencies, principally [[USAID]], the [[National Institutes of Health]], and the [[Center for Disease Control and Prevention]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cdcnpin.org/scripts/campaign/overview.asp |title=Campaigns and Initiatives – Campaign Overviews |publisher=Cdc Npin |accessdate=October 18, 2011}}</ref> remain important funding sources. Other major sponsors of HIV/AIDS programs, as well as other health and development areas, include the [[United Kingdom|United Kingdom]]'s]] [[Department for International Development]] (DFID), the [[Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation]] and the [[Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Triangle Business Journal |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2009/05/25/daily46.html |title=Gates Foundation grants Family Health International $100k for HIV work – Triangle Business Journal |publisher=Bizjournals.com |accessdate=October 18, 2011 |date=May 28, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.theglobalfund.org/programs/grant/?CountryId=KEN&compid=315&grantid=69&lang=en |title=Grant in Detail - Portfolio of Grants - KENYA & the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria |access-date=January 7, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903094030/http://www.theglobalfund.org/programs/grant/?CountryId=KEN&compid=315&grantid=69&lang=en |archive-date=September 3, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Increasingly, otherOther governments, private foundations, and the private sector arehave partneringpartnered with FHI 360 to overcome the health and development challenges.<ref name="gbcimpact1">{{cite web|url=http://www.gbcimpact.org/itcs_node/9/549/news/2284 |title=Welcome to GBCHealth |publisher=Gbcimpact.org |accessdate=October 18, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.looktothestars.org/news/3217-taylor-swift-signs-elephant-for-family-health-international |title=Taylor Swift Signs Elephant For Family Health International |publisher=Looktothestars.org |accessdate=October 18, 2011}}</ref> In 2010, Family Health International rebranded itself with the new tagline, “The science of improving lives,” highlighting FHI's commitment to empirical science empowering the world’s most vulnerable people. The name was also simplified to FHI, reflecting a broadened scope that encompasses health and development as well as service to families, communities, and nations.<ref>{{cite web|urldate=http://www.fhi.org/en/AboutFHI/Media/Releases/res_FHIAnnounces_UpdatedName.htm2009-10-09 |title=360 – Family Health International Announces Updated Name |publisher=FHI |accessdate=October 18, 2011}}</ref> In 2011, the teams of experts from Family Health International and Academy for Educational Development came together to create FHI 360. Staff includes experts in health, education, nutrition, environment, economic development, civil society, gender equality, youth, research and technology-- creating a unique mix of capabilities to address today's interrelated development challenges. FHI 360 serves more than 70 countries and all U.S. states and territories.

FHI 360 contributed to a clinical trial called [[CAPRISA 004]] , which provided an important breakthrough in the fight against HIV and genital herpes with a vaginal gel that significantly reduces a woman’swoman's risk of infection.<ref>{{cite webjournal|url=http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/science.1193748 |title=Effectiveness and Safety of Tenofovir Gel, an Antiretroviral Microbicide, for the Prevention of HIV Infection in Women |publisherdoi=Sciencemag10.1126/science.org1193748 |accessdatepmid=October20643915 18, 2011}}</ref><ref>http://www|pmc=3001187 |volume=329 |issue=5996 |journal=Science |pages=1168–1174|year=2010 |last1=Abdool Karim |first1=Q.caprisa |last2=Abdool Karim |first2=S.org/joomla/Micro/CAPRISA%20004%20Press%20Release%20for%2020%20July%202010 S.pdf</ref><ref>{{cite web |authorlast3=WillardFrohlich Cates Jr|first3=J. A. |urllast4=http://wwwGrobler |first4=A.globalhealthmagazine C.com/aids_conference_blog_top_stories/caprisa/ |titlelast5=AIDSBaxter Conference Blog|first5=C. |publisherlast6=GlobalMansoor Health Magazine|first6=L. E. |accessdatelast7=OctoberKharsany 18, 2011|first7=A. B. M. |last8=Sibeko |first8=S. |last9=Mlisana |first9=K. P. |last10=Omar |first10=Z. |last11=Gengiah |first11=T. N. |last12=Maarschalk |first12=S. |last13=Arulappan |first13=N. |last14=Mlotshwa |first14=M. |last15=Morris |first15=L. |last16=Taylor |first16=D. |author17=CAPRISA 004 Trial Group |bibcode=2010Sci...329.1168A }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/25500/ |title=New Hope for Preventing HIV Transmission |publisher=Technology Review |accessdate=October 18, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/19/aids-breakthrough-gel-hel_n_651628.html |title=AIDS Breakthrough: Gel Helps Prevent Infection |work=Huffington Post |accessdate=October 18, 2011 |date=July 19, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Dugger |first=Celia W. |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/world/africa/20safrica.html?_r=1 |title=African Studies Give Women Hope in H.I.V. Fight |location=South Africa |work=The New York Times |date=July 19, 2010 |accessdate=October 18, 2011}}</ref><ref>[http://globalhealth.kff.org/~/media/Images/AIDS2010/Support%20Files/July20%20Safety%20and%20Effectiveness%20of%20one%20percent%20Tenofovir%20Vaginal%20Microbicide.pdf ] {{waybackwebarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100804151728/http://globalhealth.kff.org/~/media/Images/AIDS2010/Support%20Files/July20%20Safety%20and%20Effectiveness%20of%20one%20percent%20Tenofovir%20Vaginal%20Microbicide.pdf |date=20100804151728August 4, 2010 }}</ref>

Family Health International’sInternational's President for Public Health Programs, [[Peter Lamptey]], was named a member of the [[CSIS Commission on Smart Global Health Policy]] in 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smartglobalhealth.org/about/commissioners/peter-lamptey/ |title=The CSIS Global Health Policy Center |publisher=Smartglobalhealth.org |accessdate=October 18, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090831233300/http://www.smartglobalhealth.org/about/commissioners/peter-lamptey/ |archive-date=August 31, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smartglobalhealth.org/ |title=The CSIS Global Health Policy Center |publisher=Smartglobalhealth.org |accessdate=October 18, 2011}}</ref> The Commission brings together twenty-six26 prominent leaders from the private sector, the [[United States Congress]], academia, media, and the security, foreign policy, and global health communities to set goals and priorities for US global health efforts over the next decade and beyond.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smartglobalhealth.org/pages/about |title=About Smart Global Health &#124; The CSIS Global Health Policy Center |publisher=Smartglobalhealth.org |accessdate=October 18, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008220218/http://www.smartglobalhealth.org/pages/about |archive-date=October 8, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The Commission released its final report titled "A Healthier, ''[Safer, and More Prosperous World" in March 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smartglobalhealth.org/content/report |title=A Healthier, Safer, and More Prosperous World]'',|access-date=March in22, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100322174923/http://smartglobalhealth.org/content/report|archive-date=March 22, 2010.|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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