Corporate Responsibility

Corporate Responsibility

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Climate change and health consequences

Global warming also has an effect on human health. Heat waves are a particular health danger for the sick and the elderly. However, higher temperatures and increased precipitation levels are also leading to shifts in the distribution areas of dangerous vectors of disease. more
Sex education program for teenagers in Uganda

"Reproductive health" – the action program of the 1994 UN World Population Conference uses this rather unwieldy term to describe an important objective: that all people should be able to have a safe sex life. Bayer Schering Pharma informs people about family-planning methods and makes it easier for them to access contraceptives – above all in poor countries. more
African sleeping sickness

Some 60 million people, mainly in Central and West Africa, suffer from African sleeping sickness, an infectious disease transmitted by the tsetse fly. The fly's saliva can transfer several thousand pathogens, also known as trypanosomes, into the human body. The disease can go unnoticed for months or even years. more
Patient organizations

For Bayer Schering Pharma, one of the world's leading specialty pharmaceutical companies, patients' health always comes first. Exchanging ideas and information with patient organizations on the basis of mutual trust is an important component of our work.

Bayer Schering Pharma cooperates with patient organizations in all kinds of therapeutic areas. more

Topics

Family–planning program
Neglected diseases
Protecting the environment
Access to medicine

Family–planning program

According to the annual report of the German Foundation for World Population (DSW), 76 million women worldwide unintentionally become pregnant every year, and more than half a million women die because of complications during pregnancy or childbirth. And unplanned children increase the risk of poverty.

In our agreements with our cooperation partners, Bayer Schering Pharma makes sure that people from poorer countries can also access a broad range of family-planning methods.
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Neglected diseases

In developing and emerging countries, it is the poorest of the poor who are worst affected by diseases. Contaminated drinking water and a lack of sewerage systems accelerate the spread of tropical and infectious diseases.

There is an urgent need for action, especially against what are known as neglected tropical diseases. These affect about a billion people worldwide. The World Health Organization's special Tropical Diseases Research (TDR) program aims to coordinate and promote global efforts to combat tropical diseases.
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Protecting the environment

We are all called upon to help counteract the negative aspects of climate change. Industry must also make a contribution to protecting the climate. Bayer is a trailblazer in the fight against climate change. The company has concentrated its commitment to climate protection in a group-wide Climate Program, which is mandatory for all subgroups.
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Access to medicine

Millions of people are excluded from basic medical care, particularly in developing countries. We are committed to reducing disparities in healthcare and giving people access to important medicines, not only in developing countries.
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Acting responsibly

As a pharmaceutical company, Bayer Schering Pharma sees itself as an important part of society. The main focus of our social engagement is on long-term cooperation with recognized development organizations and international bodies. Our engagement has three clear priorities:

In more than 130 countries, we actively support the cause of giving people access to a wide range of family-planning methods, irrespective of their income.
We support the fight against neglected tropical diseases.
We offer programs for improving access to innovative medicines.