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Corporate Responsibility Review 2007

Q&ASix Questions.
Six Answers.
One mission.

Patient in hospital What is GSK doing to respond to society's healthcare needs?

> Contribution to global health

Nurse What is GSK doing to improve access to medicines in developing countries?

> Access to medicines

Research and development How do you make patient safety a priority?

> Research practices

Person standing on weighing scales What is GSK's commitment to ethical sales and marketing?

> Ethical conduct

People in a meeting What is GSK doing to address climate change?

> Environment

Patient with LF How do you support disadvantaged communities?

> Community investment


Welcome to GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK's) Corporate Responsibility (CR) Review 2007. In this document we summarise our approach to some of the key social, ethical and environmental issues associated with our business. We highlight the progress we made in 2007, some of the challenges we face and answer some of the questions frequently asked by our stakeholders. This Review does not provide a complete account of corporate responsibility at GSK. There is more information in our full CR Report.


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2007 highlights



£3.3bn


Invested £3.3 billion and employed over 16,000 people in R&D

1.1bn

Supplied 1.1 billion vaccine doses for prevention of serious disease

268m

Tablets of Combivir and Epivir HIV/AIDS medicines supplied to developing countries.This includes 183 million tablets supplied by generic manufacturers licensed by GSK

£282m

Community investment valued at £282m

45%

New climate change target adopted to reduce energy use and climate change impact by 45 per cent by 2015

22%

Women accounted for 22 per cent of senior managers and 37 per cent of all employees in management grades


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