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THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY FROM RIO TO JOHANNESBURG AND BEYOND Health management One way in which HIV is transmitted, particularly in Africa, is via transport routes along major arterial networks. The transport of fuel in certain regions—particularly Sub-Saharan Africa—inevitably makes a contribution to this pattern. As a first step in trying to remedy this situation, IPIECA is planning a guidance note, Knowledge, Policy and Action, to help members review existing transport practices and provide them with materials to launch an education campaign aimed particularly at tank truck drivers. Human Health Initiative IPIECA’s Human Health Initiative was recently set up to help the industry identify health issues of global concern. It draws attention to impacts of the industry’s products and operations on workers and the public, identifies research gaps IPIECA and encourages industry cooperative efforts to address these gaps. The Initiative will also disseminate health research information and technical and educational material and tools. Actions speaking louder than words Case studies on health management Combating HIV/AIDS An on-line workshop for women journalists In an effort to promote HIV/AIDS prevention awareness, ChevronTexaco sponsored an on-line workshop for African women journalists. The five-day event, conducted by the African Women’s Media Center, involved the simultaneous participation of 130 journalists in 12 African nations. ChevronTexaco’s own office in Lekki served as one of the satellite sites for the workshop. Topics covered included the causes of HIV/AIDS in women in Africa, approaches to prevention and care, social and cultural beliefs that affect women and AIDS and the role of the media. For many of the participants, the session was doubly educational, marking their first exposure to the learning/communications potential of the Internet. For more information visit the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) website: www.africacncl.org/ whatsnew/PR-May15_2000aids.htm. Meanwhile, BP has been a founding sponsor of ‘Soul City’, South Africa’s innovative and widely popular example educational entertainment. A soap opera with a difference, ‘Soul City’ tackles some of South Africa’s most pressing issues, with AIDS awareness foremost among the recent story lines. Rolling back malaria Malaria kills one million people each year. Ninety per cent of these deaths occur in the sub- Saharan region of Africa, where one in five child deaths is due to malaria. This is an immense human tragedy, all the more poignant because malaria is both preventable and curable. That is why ExxonMobil is supporting the World Health Organization’s Roll Back Malaria movement, 36
CONTRIBUTING TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Health management Annual deaths from malaria Number of deaths (millions) 4 3 2 1 0 world Asia Africa Central and South America 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1999 Source: Roll Back Malaria; R. Carter drugs, are provided free of charge. The floating clinic is a collaboration between ChevronTexaco and the Delta State government. ChevronTexaco provides the boat as well as funding for the purchase of equipment, drugs, dressings and other necessary supplies. The state government provides the medical staff, which consists of two teams on weekly shifts, each with one doctor, three nurses and one auxiliary nurse.The River Boat Clinic is currently treating some 700 patients every week. Ninety per cent of deaths due to malaria occur in sub-Saharan Africa. ExxonMobil hopes that the Roll Back Malaria programme will go some way to reversing this trend. Going with the flow alongside the governments of several malaria-infected countries, the United Nations Development Programme, UNICEF and the World Bank. Through country and local community partnerships, Roll Back Malaria promotes such measures as the use of insecticide-impregnated bed nets and new technologies and medicines to control and treat malaria. Specifically, ExxonMobil is providing practical logistics support as well as funding for an enhanced programme in at-risk areas of operation such as Angola, Cameroon, Chad, Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria. The company is also helping to fund leading efforts such as the Harvard Malaria Initiative and the Medicines for Malaria Venture,which hopes to develop new anti-malarial drugs through private-public research partnerships. ChevronTexaco’s most recent health care programme in Nigeria is the River Boat Clinic. Its concept is simple: If you can’t get to the hospital, the hospital will come to you. Catering to the health needs of people along the remote Esravos and Benin River areas in the Niger Delta, the floating clinic travels to the towns of Madangho, Opuama, Opia, Benikrukru, Dibi, Gbokoda and Adragbassa on designated days of each week. At each stop, the River Boat Clinic’s medical staff attends to the people of these towns as well as neighbouring villages. All treatments including the doctors’ consultations and dispensation of Reducing the perils of paraffin Paraffin is a convenient, efficient and clean domestic fuel, which is why more than half of all South Africans rely on it for cooking, lighting, heating and refrigeration. Annual usage is more than 900 million litres. However, paraffin can be highly dangerous. If mistaken for water, for instance, its consumption causes chemical pneumonia. Incidents of paraffin-related fires and burns in the domestic environment—particularly in informal settlements—are also disturbingly high. To address this issue, in 1995 the oil companies established the Paraffin Safety Association of Southern Africa (PSASA). PSASA has since distributed child resistant safety caps and bottles to ensure safe home storage. This effort was supported by a major public safety programme on television and radio, reaching more than 20 million people in 11 languages. In addition, PSASA has trained 1500 educators and community and health workers to conduct safety awareness workshops. Evaluation programmes in affected communities have shown significant improvements in safety practices. Above right: ‘Sassy’, a character devised to represent a paraffin bottle safety cap (child resistant enclosure), gets the children’s attention. Right: a community education programme under way to teach children about the risks of misusing paraffin. 37
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