Partners In Health, Abbott And The Abbott Fund Unite To Combat Severe Childhood Malnutrition In Haiti
Sunday, Mar. 6th 2011 4:24 PM
Partners In Health (PIH) and Abbott (NYSE: ABT) and its philanthropic foundation, the Abbott Fund, announced a partnership to empower Haitians to create local solutions to the longstanding problem of severe malnutrition in Haiti. Together, PIH and Abbott plan to build a nutritional food production facility that will allow Haitians to produce locally-sourced, high-quality nutritious food products.
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