Abbott Corporate Giving

Abbott and Abbott Fund, the company's philanthropic foundation reach millions of people worldwide in programs focused on AIDS, science and medical innovation, access to health care and community vitality. In 2006, its corporate giving totaled nearly $300 million in grants and product donations.

Fighting diabetes in the United States and around the world

Abbott's work to fight diabetes goes beyond manufacturing and selling blood glucose monitors and test strips through its Abbott Diabetes Care (ADC) division. In partnership with others, the company has several key initiatives targeting diabetes:

• In Bolivia, Abbott partners with Direct Relief International, a leading international relief organization, to support outreach activities of El Centro Vivir Con Diabetes, a group dedicated to the education, care and counseling of low-income adults and children with diabetes. The Abbott Fund's grant supports diabetes education, expands public outreach campaigns, trains health care personnel in diabetes management and develops a core group of diabetes educators. Donated glucose screening and monitoring equipment has helped screen approximately 8,000 people for the disease and monitors the condition of thousands more.
  
• Abbott donates meters and strips to a range of community organizations and health clinics across the U.S. and has established a patient assistance program to provide meters and strips to patients who cannot afford diabetes supplies, but do not qualify for government health benefits. This program gives an estimated $750,000 worth of products annually to those in need.

Strengthening the Health Care System in Tanzania

• Resource-limited health care systems and lack of trained health care workers are some of the key barriers to increasing the reach of HIV treatment programs in developing countries. Abbott Fund and the Government of Tanzania have partnered to develop one of Africa's most comprehensive initiatives to strengthen a country's health care system and train staff to meet the needs of people with HIV and other life-long diseases.

To date, Abbott Fund has invested more than $40 million in this partnership, which has expanded testing and treatment at more than 80 health centers throughout Tanzania, bringing HIV services into some remote regions for the first time. In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city, the program is building state-of-the-art clinical diagnostic laboratories and a three-story outpatient center at the country's leading reference hospital, training more than 10,500 health care workers and providing voluntary HIV counseling and testing for more than 130,000 people.

For more information on Abbott's programs to fight HIV/AIDS in developing countries, visit http://www.abbottglobalcare.org/

To learn about Abbott's complete corporate giving information, visit www.abbott.com/citizenship and http://www.abbottfund.org/.