Sigma-Tau - Humanitarian Commitment

Humanitarian Commitment

Over the years, Sigma-Tau has developed numerous partnerships, formed with associations and bodies engaged – at national and international level – in projects and activities with a social emphasis, with particular focus on the areas of health and social welfare. The company also provides its medicines free-of-charge to around 40 national and international organizations operating in conflict and post-conflict contexts to support those people stricken by natural disasters and famine. At international level, Sigma-Tau:

• supports the activities of Unicef and Vanaprastha, a non-profit organization responsible for educational and medical assistance in India, with programs mainly geared towards childcare;
• collaborates with Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV)), an association supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in the development of one of the most efficient antimalaria medicines available, a fixed combination consisting of dihydroartemisinin and piperaquine judged to be the best combination containing artemisinin, partly due to the low incidence of side effects;
• supports Panecioccolata, a non-profit organization operating in Senegal, in contributing towards the construction of a facility for 40 children whose families face particularly destitute conditions;
• collaborates with the Italian branch of non-profit organization World Centers of Compassion for Children, chaired by Nobel prize-winner for peace, Betty Williams who promotes the culture of peace and the safeguarding of the rights of children throughout the world, through awareness and information activities;
• promoted the Together for Africa project, within the scope of which it supported AMREF (African Medical and Research Foundation) in implementing a healthcare program in northern Uganda, the area most affected by the civil war of the 1990s, with the aim of vaccinating over 3,000 children against the most widespread diseases (tuberculosis, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, hepatitis B, Haemophilus Influenzae B, and measles) and at the same time training local healthcare workers.

At national level:

• supports various patients’ associations, including l’AGOP (Associazione Genitori Oncologia Pediatrica – Parents’ Association of Paediatric Oncology), based at the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic in Rome, which fosters scientific research in the field of paediatric oncology and provides global assistance to sick children and their families;
• together with AISLA (Associazione Italiana Sclerosi Laterale Amiotrofica – Italian Association of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) participates in the support of the goals of the association, above all in increasing public awareness of the problems connected to ALS;
• has for many years supported Destinazione Domani, the popular science journal by AIL, Associazione Italiana contro le Leuecemie, Linfomi e Mieloma – the Italian Association Against Leukaemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma non-profit organization;
• supports the institutional activities of the Camminare con il Diabete non-profit diabetes association and PerLa - Associazione per l’Andrologia association for andrology;
• participates in a program of solidarity to support with Associazione Dynamo Camp, each year hosting around 1,000 children affected by serious and chronic diseases from hospitals throughout Italy and abroad for free, at the Cesto del Lupo oasis – a park located in the WWF nature reserve in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennine Mountains. The association works in partnership with the Association of Hole in the Wall Camps which has created 11 structures from the United States to Europe, supporting similar programs in Africa and the rest of the world;
• collaborates in providing information through Vita, the non-profit weekly magazine which aims to encourage the culture of solidarity and social responsibility, providing its readers with up-to-date, independent analysis of the voluntary sector.