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Improving health is one of the toughest challenges facing the world today. As a global biopharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca has a key role to play with medicines that make a real difference. We know that we can’t work in isolation if we are to deliver medicines that people really want and value. So we work closely with all our stakeholders to understand their needs and how we can combine forces to improve healthcare. Because health connects us all.

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Health connects us all
WIPO logoMore than 1 billion people – a sixth of the world’s population – suffer from Neglected Tropical Diseases, or NTDs. That’s why we’ve committed to make our entire patent portfolio available for use in NTD R&D through WIPO Re:Search.

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Non-communicable diseasesNon-communicable diseases are on the increase. How are we helping to stem the tide?
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Bacterial resistanceBacterial resistance to antibiotics is a global health threat. Creative collaboration is the key to successfully meeting the challenge.

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Tackling TBTackling TB in Central Asia and Africa. Our long-standing support to the Red Cross is helping them to fight TB in some of the poorest parts of central Asia and Africa.

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Dispelling mythsHelping to dispel the myths. Alongside our ongoing research, we are working at a local level to set the record straight on some key lung cancer issues.

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Pharma: A force for good?

I am proud of my industry and what it has achieved. It will not be easy to maintain that same progress in the next fifty years; the world is a more complex and more challenging place. But you should not doubt our commitment to delivering sustainable value to our shareholders and to society as a whole.

David Brennan, CEO

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