In 2005, we provided almost $780 million in monetary and product donations

AstraZeneca supports nonprofit health care organizations and programs across the US through a contributions program administered through the company’s six regional business centers.

Last year, the United States faced the worst natural disaster in its history—Hurricane Katrina. Although that was a difficult time for all of us, we’re proud of the work we did to help the victims. We gave $1 million to the American Red Cross, and we matched our employees’ contributions dollar for dollar. We provided free medicines to patients, clinics, and national and local disaster relief organizations. We also supported Americares, Project Hope, and the National Council for Behavioral Healthcare’s Project Helping Hands, a project meant to help care for the mental health of people displaced by the hurricane. AstraZeneca employees worked countless hours in relief centers, delivering medicines, cleaning up, and providing shelter.

Even with all this attention to Katrina relief, our work in other communities continued. We gave more than $27 million to community organizations in 2005 to support health. Some of the programs and organizations we supported include:

The fight against cancer

• We helped with Crozer-Keystone Health System’s Cancer Survivors Day, an event that focuses on the emotional and spiritual needs of cancer survivors, and were proud to receive the Celebrate Life Community Award for our support.
• We were also the top supporter of the American Cancer Society’s Daffodil Days in New Castle County. The proceeds from Daffodil Days support research, education, patient advocacy, and other services.
• We worked with the Los Angeles Breast Cancer Alliance to provide nonclinical services to qualified low-income women undergoing treatment for breast cancer.

• We sponsored a symposium on disparities in mental health care for the American Psychiatric Association (APA), as well as several conferences for the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance on diagnosis, treatment, mental health wellness, and family issues.
• We worked with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) to build awareness of mental health and the importance of treatment and recovery and developed a course for people with mental illness that covered the biological basis and coping skills.
• We also supported numerous initiatives around our headquarters in Wilmington.

• We worked with the NAACP and local groups that support diversity.
• We funded efforts surrounding cardiovascular research, CPR training in the community, and patient education with the American Heart Association.
• Other partners in 2005 include the Stroke Association of Southern California, the Allergy and Asthma Network’s Mothers of Asthmatics, and the Center for Healthy Aging.
• We support the Get Healthy Screening Campaign—a program that works in communities to offer personal health numbers—blood pressure, cholesterol, and others—and assessments of mental health and risk for GERD and ulcers.
• AstraZeneca sponsors State of our Health, a series of forums held across the US to bring together health care policymakers, thought leaders and executives to address health care quality improvement. The forums bring to the forefront the commitment that AstraZeneca has to quality health care and the value of pharmaceuticals as a critical part of the quality equation. These forums demonstrate to our communities that we share a vision for high-quality health care and that AstraZeneca is part of the solution. Each forum is sponsored by AstraZeneca in collaboration with a blue-ribbon steering committee composed of national health care leaders and policymakers. State of Health forums have taken place in numerous states including Tennessee, Massachusetts, Texas, New York, Colorado, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, California, Hawaii, Connecticut, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Washington.
• MassMedLine—In 2006, AstraZeneca announced a continuing partnership with the MassMedLine program, a public-private partnership between the Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs and the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. MassMedLine operates a toll-free prescription drug hotline for Massachusetts citizens who have trouble paying for prescription drugs.
  
  The two-year collaboration will educate and help identify diverse Commonwealth populations in need of access to medicines through drug assistance programs. This is a continuation of a 2-year collaboration started in 2004 between AZ and MA Medline that brought timely information to seniors on the Medicare-Approved Drug Discount Card Program and in 2005, Medicare Part D programs.