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United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Sustainable Development

HP's commits to continue applying the skills of its people (more than 320,000), its technology assets, and its customer and stakeholder partnerships to develop innovative solutions that address the root causes of critical global challenges such as infant

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    As the world's largest information technology company, Hewlett Packard (HP) shares an urgent goal with the UN Secretary-General: to improve healthcare and quality of life for millions of women and children around the world. Social innovation at HP is an exciting, dynamic and targeted initiative within the company's Global Citizenship strategy. Based on the concept of creating shared value, it connects economic progress with societal needs. Social Innovation at HP centers on the belief that the same passion, energy and culture of innovation that makes HP successful commercially can also be used to make a profound and positive social impact in the world. Through its global health initiatives, HP is collaborating with leading health authorities to reinvent processes, modernize systems, and develop solutions that dramatically expand access, improve care, and save lives. HP's commits to continue applying the skills of its people (more than 320,000), its technology assets, and its customer and stakeholder partnerships to develop innovative solutions that address the root causes of critical global challenges such as infant HIV, maternal health, unemployment and poverty. For example, HP has partnered with the Clinton Health Access Initiative and the Kenya Ministry of Health on the Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) project. The goal is to leverage technology solutions to improve testing and treatment for more than 120,000 infants exposed to HIV in Kenya each year. In 2010, HP provided over US $45 million to support its Global Social Innovation efforts and commits to continue applying its human, technical, intellectual, and financial assets to develop transformative solutions and enable healthy lives, active minds and hope for millions.

    Implementation of the Project/Activity

    Through its global health initiatives, HP is collaborating with leading health authorities to reinvent processes, modernize systems, and develop solutions that dramatically expand access, improve care, and save lives.HP has partnered with the Clinton Health Access Initiative and the Kenya Ministry of Health on the Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) project. The goal is to leverage technology solutions to improve testing and treatment for more than 120,000 infants exposed to HIV in Kenya each year.

    Partners
    Clinton Health Access Initiative, Kenya Ministry of Health on the Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) project,

    Goal 5

    Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

    Goal 5

    5.1

    End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere

    5.1.1

    Whether or not legal frameworks are in place to promote, enforce and monitor equality and non‑discrimination on the basis of sex

    5.2

    Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation
    5.2.1

    Proportion of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to physical, sexual or psychological violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by form of violence and by age

    5.2.2

    Proportion of women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to sexual violence by persons other than an intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by age and place of occurrence

    5.3

    Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation
    5.3.1

    Proportion of women aged 20-24 years who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 18

    5.3.2

    Proportion of girls and women aged 15-49 years who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting, by age

    5.4

    Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate

    5.4.1

    Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work, by sex, age and location

    5.5

    Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life

    5.5.1

    Proportion of seats held by women in (a) national parliaments and (b) local governments

    5.5.2

    Proportion of women in managerial positions

    5.6

    Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences

    5.6.1

    Proportion of women aged 15-49 years who make their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care

    5.6.2

    Number of countries with laws and regulations that guarantee full and equal access to women and men aged 15 years and older to sexual and reproductive health care, information and education

    5.a

    Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws

    5.a.1

    (a) Proportion of total agricultural population with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land, by sex; and (b) share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of tenure

    5.a.2

    Proportion of countries where the legal framework (including customary law) guarantees women’s equal rights to land ownership and/or control

    5.b

    Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women
    5.b.1

    Proportion of individuals who own a mobile telephone, by sex

    5.c

    Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels

    5.c.1

    Proportion of countries with systems to track and make public allocations for gender equality and women’s empowerment

    Within the first year in operation, HP and CHAI expect to process EID HIV test results for approximately 70,000 infants, as well as provide real-time medical data to health practitioners throughout Kenya. The system also will scale to support Kenya’s Ministry of Public Health & Sanitation as it expands Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) services to more than 3,000 facilities during the next two years.(1)
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    Every Woman Every Child
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    01 January 1970 (start date)
    01 January 2012 (date of completion)
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