Companies

The Life for a Child Programme has received the generous support of the following companies:

	Lilly Diabetes and staff Lilly Diabetes provide free insulin for a number of countries supported by the Programme. By the end of 2011 over 7,000 children and youth will be being helped by donated Lilly insulin. Lilly has pledged to increase this support to cover the insulin needs of up to 24,000 children in the developing world by 2013. Lilly have also provided donations to Rotary International and these funds have been used to provide matching grants for Rotary Club activities in support of the LFAC Program. Many Lilly employees also support the Program directly over many years.
	Becton Dickinson In 2011, Becton, Dickinson & Company (BD) generously agreed to donate insulin syringes/needles (29 gauge ½ mL insulin syringes) to the Life for a Child Programme. BD is a global medical technology company based in New Jersey, USA, manufacturing and selling a broad range of medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment and diagnostic products. Certain centres will receive a set amount for the year in a single delivery, working on an assumption of 100 syringes per child per year (two per week).
	Johnson & Johnson/LifeScan Johnson & Johnson/LifeScan have provided significant financial contributions to the Programme.
	Nipro Diagnostics For the past five years Nipro Diagnostics, Inc. (a subsidiary of Nipro Corporation) have been providing reduced-price strips to Life for a Child for a small number of countries. Japanese-owned but based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (USA), Nipro Diagnostics develops, manufactures and markets a range of diabetes management products, including those branded under the TRUE™ name. In early February 2012, Nipro advised LFAC of a significant and very generous increase in their support for the Programme, markedly decreasing the cost of both test strips and meters specifically for LFAC. This came through an existing strong relationship Nipro has with the Australian Diabetes Council, who have continued to champion LFAC with the company. Excitingly, it will allow LFAC to fully support many children who currently receive donated insulin from Lilly Diabetes, but who are not yet monitored, and also to help a number of new children.
	National Diagnostic Products National Diagnostic Products is a developer, manufacturer and marketer of pioneering medical diagnostic products. Based in Sydney, Australia, NDP has specialised in photometric technology for over 20 years - this reliable and robust methodology is used in laboratory based analysers. Adapting this technology and incorporating it into high performance membranes suitable for use outside the laboratory has been the focus of their research and development efforts. With a focus on home diabetes monitoring, NDP markets its products under the brand name BETACHEK®. Since late 2010, NDP has provided the Life for a Child Programme with access to very high quality visual strips for self-monitoring at a reduced price.
	Bioton Bioton provide free insulin for children and youth supported by the Program in Uzbekistan.
	Team Type 1 The professional cycling team, Team Type 1, are passionate advocates for the needs of people with diabetes. They provide encouragement and supplies to children and youth supported by the Programme in Morocco, and will soon be doing the same when they tour Rwanda. More information: http://teamtype1.org/.
	Boehringer Ingelheim Boehringer Ingelheim is a worldwide group of companies focussed on the two key business areas of Human Pharmaceuticals and Animal Health. Founded in 1885, this German-based family-owned company has been supporting Life for a Child since 2010, making regular financial donations and raising awareness of the Programme through activity-based initiatives. For example, in November 2011 Boehringer raised funds for LFAC with a special activity run from their booth during the meeting of the German Diabetes Association (DiabetesDE) in Berlin. The company distributed pedometers to over 500 physicians and diabetes nurse educators, encouraging them to generate as many steps as possible during the event. At the end of the two days, the steps collected were converted to funds for Life for a Child.
	Landmark Group
	Acon ACON Laboratories, Inc. (ACON) is a leading provider of diagnostic products to customers in over 100 countries – products include blood glucose monitoring, clinical chemistry e.g. urinalysis, and immunoassay. With operations in the US and China, ACON products are produced in a FDA-registered and ISO 13485:2003 certified manufacturing facility for diagnostic and medical production. As part of their support to Life for a Child, which commenced in 2011, ACON donates blood glucose meters free of charge and sell test strips to the Programme at a significant discount. The first three shipments of reduced-price test strips and free blood glucose meters from ACON will be distributed to children and youth in Nigeria, Sudan and Togo.
	Roche
	Sanofi
	Takeda
	T1D Exchange The T1D Exchange is a platform that facilitates the exchange of knowledge among the research community, individuals with type 1 diabetes and their caregivers. Comprised of a clinic-based registry, a biorepository, and an interactive patient portal with mobile capabilities called Glu, the T1D Exchange’s goal is to unify the best of traditional clinical and biological research with the expanding fields of health information technology and virtual community-building - www.t1dexchange.org.