December 11, 2023- BD announced it signed the World Economic Forum’s Zero Health Gaps Pledge, which reinforces the company’s longstanding commitment to help expand access and improve health equity in under-resourced communities around the world. The global, multi-sector pledge includes ten commitments which embed health equity principles across company strategy and social investments, ultimately aiming to accelerate progress toward equity and drive positive health outcomes.
From supplying syringes to enable the world’s first polio vaccine trial, to expanding access to HIV and tuberculosis testing, and delivering millions of tests and two billion syringes to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, BD has helped strengthen health systems and expand access to the most vulnerable populations around the world. In the company’s Fiscal Year 2022 environmental, social and governance report, BD stated how it will continue advancing health equity through three areas of opportunity:
- Technology and innovation.
- Public-private partnerships.
- Investment in health system strengthening.
Through this scope BD is committed to helping address the root causes of health inequities.