| Achievement of previous goals |
| Strategic goal | Actions | By when? | Status | |
| Eliminate the tropical disease schistosomiasis in Africa | Donation of tablets containing the active ingredient praziquantel to treat African schoolchildren | continuously | Since the start of the project until the end of 2011, more than 19 million children in 14 African countries were treated with 80 million tablets.
2009: Donation of 25 million tablets in 11 African countries.
2010: Donation of 22.5 million tablets in 8 African countries.
2011: Donation of 25 million tablets in 9 African countries.
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| Educational program to inform about the causes of schistosomiasis and possible prevention measures | Pilot project until mid-2012 | Mid-2011: Start of a pilot project in Malawi and Senegal to test the program and the related materials. | |
| Step-wise ten-fold increase in the number of tablets donated annually | 2016 | A search is ongoing for a further active ingredient supplier. | |
| Research on a new formulation for children under 5 years of age | | Ongoing | |
| Optimization of the present formulation | 2013 | Development of a new coating that makes the tablets easier to swallow and ensures that they don’t break apart so easily and are less sensitive to heat. | |
| Fight counterfeit medicines | - Provide and further develop the compact mobile laboratory GPHF-Minilab®
- Develop new test methods
- Provide training on the use of the GPHFMinilab®
| 2010 | 2009: 2010: Four training courses on using the GPHFMinilab®. Donation of one Minilab to Cameroon. Development of nine new test methods.
| ongoing |
- Develop new test methods for five active ingredients
- Expand the manual to include descriptions of the new test methods
| 2011 | | ongoing |
| Establish an annual reporting system to document and assess the local activities of the companies of the Merck Group | - Implement an electronic questionnaire for the companies of the Merck Group
- Conduct plausibility check of the input and assessment of individual projects based on their conformity with the requirements in force Group-wide since 2007
- Corporate Communications to steer actions as needed
| 2010 | | achieved |
