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.

 

Vision of the President

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Events

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Immunity in the elderly: Response after vaccination

21–23 September 2009, Sienne (Italy)

Current knowledge of the mechanisms of the immune-senescence and how this affects the response to vaccines.

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Current challenges and new methodological approaches to assess vaccine effectiveness and vaccination impact

28–30 September 2009, Les Pensières, Annecy (France)

Vaccine effectiveness: epidemiology, monitoring and current development of exposure to the vaccine.

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Map of Infectious Diseases

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

Mission of Fondation Mérieux

The Film of the Fondation

Grants Programme

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

Scientific Fellowships

Fondation Mérieux scientific fellowship programme is a grant programme established to promote exchanges and collaboration among researchers from the developed and developing world.

Annual Report 2007

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