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Constella Group Expands HIV/AIDS and Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services with $325 Million Global Contract

Durham, N.C., Oct. 4, 2005—Constella Group, a leading global provider of professional health services, has won a contract with a total potential value of $325 million, including an initial $100 million task order with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Through this contract, the company will continue to provide health policy development and implementation services to benefit people in developing countries worldwide.

The new Policy Dialogue and Implementation (PDI) contract and corresponding task order extend the 30-year history that the company's Futures Group business unit has built with USAID. The PDI will continue a global effort that works with civil society and government partners in developing countries to create enabling policy environments for high quality, sustainable HIV/AIDS, family planning and reproductive health, and safe motherhood programs and services. As a new and expanded mandate of this contract, Constella will support policy implementation as well as the creation of new policies.

"Our win of the PDI contract demonstrates our continued global leadership in HIV/AIDS, family planning and reproductive health, and maternal health," said Donald A. Holzworth, Constella Group chairman and CEO. "Working with USAID to improve the health of millions of people worldwide directly supports our company's vision to enhance human health around the world, every day."

Constella is partnering with the following organizations to accomplish this USAID mission-the Centre for Development and Population Activities; the World Conference of Religions for Peace, the largest international coalition of representatives from the world's great religions dedicated to achieving peace; and the White Ribbon Alliance, a global organization focused on safe motherhood.

"We are extremely proud to continue our critical work on behalf of USAID," said Jeff Jordan, chief operating officer of Constella's Futures Group business unit. "This new contract represents continuity and change from the previous contract and builds upon our 30-year relationship with USAID-10 years implementing POLICY and 20 years implementing RAPID and OPTIONS, three predecessor contracts projects to PDI."

Constella's Futures Group business unit has more than 330 employees based in more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia and the Near East, Europe and Eurasia, and Latin America and the Caribbean supporting the POLICY Project, which embraces a multi-sectoral, participatory approach to policy making and program implementation. Futures Group's past work on the POLICY Project includes assisting in the creation of an HIV/AIDS policy for the Catholic Church of India and helping the Ministry of Health in Nigeria draft and gain approval for the National Policy Guidelines for the Contraceptives Logistics Management System. In addition, the business unit helped to create an advocacy manual to train government officials, women's groups, midwives, Persons Living with HIV/AIDS groups, faith-based leaders and citizen surveillance committees.

About Constella Group
Constella Group is a leading provider of professional health services worldwide, dedicated to enhancing human health around the world, every day. Constella's three business units-Health Sciences, Futures Group and Clinical Informatics-create and provide health intelligence to help industry and government clients identify and solve critical problems affecting human health. Headquartered in Durham, N.C., the company has approximately 1,200 employees in more than 55 countries with offices in North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.constellagroup.com and www.futuresgroup.com.

About Futures Group.
Futures Group, a Constella Group company, specializes in public health and social programs for developing countries. Since 1971, the business unit has worked in more than 100 countries to build local capacity to design and implement effective strategies to address critical development issues. Futures Group has earned a reputation as a global leader in family planning and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, safe motherhood, and child health and nutrition. Its areas of expertise include policy, social marketing, health finance and economics, advocacy, communications, community/NGO mobilization, monitoring and evaluation, gender analysis, capacity development, human rights, and computer modeling and forecasting.  

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