GSK makes pioneer antibiotic even more relevant today
Antibiotics are one of the most important medicines in modern medical history. Human life has greatly improved both in length and quality due to these life-saving medicines. A landmark period in the development of antibiotics was the discovery of amoxicillin, one of the most popular and dependable antibiotics that had become known to man ever since.
Back to top
GSK at a glance
We are the only pharmaceutical company to tackle the three "priority" diseases identified by the World Health Organization: HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria Our business employs over 100,000 people in 117 countries We make almost four billion packs of medicines and healthcare products every year We screen about 65 million compounds every year in our search for new medicines We supply one quarter of the world's vaccines and by the end of 2007 we had 23 vaccines in clinical development To date, we have donated over 750 million albendazole tablets to help elimitate lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis) in the world In 2006 we shipped 126 million tablets of preferentially-priced Combivir and Epivir (our HIV treatments) to developing countries Almost 100 countries benefitted from our humanitarian product donations