Getting Better Results

Gary Cohen, Executive Vice President - Becton Dickinson (mp3)

Dr. Steven Phillips, Medical Director, Global Issues & Projects - ExxonMobil (mp3)

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The Next Phase of Business Action

 

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The Coalition is a worldwide mobilization of businesses and their critical assets. The assets that make us tough commercial competitors also make us a formidable collective force in the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria—three of the greatest human tragedies and socio-economic threats of our time.

Public-sector agencies cannot win the fight alone. They want and need businesses’ partnership. The fight can only be won with active and focused application of business infrastructure, skills, and brand power. So our role must—and does—go well beyond providing financial support.

Businesses join the Coalition to maximize their individual and collective effectiveness. Through the Coalition, businesses coordinate their work with each other and with the public sector. Coalition staff help members ensure that business capabilities are focused in ways that get results. 

Member Support

Coalition staff help members take their programs from ideas to impact.  Here’s how:

    A Coalition with Purpose and Impact

    GBC is a Coalition of more than 220 companies united to keep the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria a global priority. The Coalition’s members share learnings from the front lines of the fight, and GBC provides tailored support so that companies can take an active role in defeating the pandemics. GBC also organizes collective actions among companies, and links the public and private sectors in ways that pool talents and resources.

    We work in concert with others who are critical to effective action—governments, NGOs, and strong partners around the world. Business brings creativity and innovation, and pivotal core competencies—expertise in areas such as media and public education; logistics and distribution; and health care management.

    Our members also directly touch the lives of millions of people. We reach our workforce, our customers, as well as public and private partners all along the supply chain.

    Business recognizes the threat these diseases pose: to workforce, socioeconomic stability, community well-being and vitality. Business also knows that action is expected of them: It affects the quality of the talent they attract, their brands, their customers.

    Business turns to GBC to provide leadership and support to ensure they realize their potential in this fight, and maximize their impact.

    GBC represents the private sector delegation to the Global Fund. 
  • We guide business action.  We collect and create knowledge, then turn it into action steps that companies and partners apply, either individually or collectively.
  • We create connections. Coalition staff match members with collaboration and co-investment partners. We also organize action-oriented networking opportunities and represent the private sector delegation to the Global Fund. 
  • We shape agendas.  Businesses want to know that they are setting the right priorities, and we help them do that— both for their individual objectives and as part of the overall global fight. 
  • We are always results-minded. All of our work is focused on outcomes.  Whether it’s a report, a convening, or a consultation, it would not happen at the Coalition if it didn’t advance high-impact,  results-oriented objectives. 
  • We work to make it known that business wants HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria high on the global agenda— and to help companies ensure that key stakeholders and partners know what businesses are doing, and how best to engage the private sector.

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