Fondation Mérieux

Infectious diseases kill nearly 14 million people throughout the world each year. Every day 30,000 children under the age of 5 die from preventable and curable infectious diseases.

90% of these victims live in developing countries, where millions of people are infected by HIV / AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis each day.

It is for these men, women and children that the Fondation Mérieux is fighting, to overcome infectious disease and improve public health in developing countries.

Sources: WHO (Millennium Development Goals, World Health Report 2003), Institut Pasteur.

Mission of the Fondation

 

Events

8–9 May 2008, « Les Pensières », Annecy, France

« Moving Forward » in diagnosis of infectious diseases in developing countries: a focus on tuberculosis

 

19–30 May 2008, « Les Pensières », Annecy, France

ADVAC 9

 

3–6 June 2008, Cartagena, Colombia

Vaccinology 2008

VI international Symposium for Latin American Experts

 

Programme [1.4 Mb PPT]

 

7–9 July 2008, « Les Pensières », Annecy, France

Evaluating acceptability of vaccine and vaccination: a public health perspective

 

Programme [75 Kb PDF]

Registration [8.8 Mb PDF]

Fondation Mérieux at the Center of Infectious Outbreaks

This series of epidemiological maps explains the motivation behind Fondation Mérieux's efforts.

 

Grants Programme

Fondation Mérieux supports your projects to help citizens of developing countries.

 

Scientific Fellowships

Each year, Fondation Merieux awards several fellowships to scientists throughout the world whose research contributes towards the control of infectious diseases in developing countries.