FED: Organisations and their sponsors
SYDNEY, AAP - Some examples of pharmaceutical sponsorship. This list is not definitive.
IMPOTENCE AUSTRALIA
Description: "Set up to decrease the suffering of men with impotence and their partnersby providing quality telephone counselling and information fact sheets on many sexualissues. Impotence Australia strives to develop and maintain relations with consumers andhealth professionals to improve treatments and care. Impotence Australia is an independentconsumer organisation."
Sponsors: Pfizer, Faulding, Glyde, Eli Lilly, Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline
Sponsors' products include: Erection drugs, condoms.
MENINGITIS CENTRE
Description: "Established in Perth in 1992 by a group of parents and health care professionalsimpacted by the disease to raise public awareness of meningitis; encourage, facilitateand fund meningitis research; and provide family support services."
Sponsors include: Wyeth Australia
Sponsors products incluce: Vaccines against meningococcal and pneumococcal disease- both causes of meningitis.
AUSTRALASIAN SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF OBESITY (ASSO)
Description: "The Mission of ASSO is to improve the management and prevention of obesityin Australasia through increased awareness and understanding, improved research on obesityissues and the identification of improved management and prevention practices."
Sponsors include: Abbott Australasia, Roche, Novartis Nutrition
Sponsors products include: Weight-loss pills, calorie-control guide.
OSTEOPOROSIS AUSTRALIA
Description: "Formed in 1994 in response to community demand for information about Osteoporosis."
Sponsors include: Dairy Farmers, Aventis, Dairy Australia, Caltrate, Eli Lilly, MerckSharp and Dohme
Sponsors' products include: Dairy products, calcium supplements, osteoporosis drugs.
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