Chevron Corporate Responsibility Report 2010

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Nigeria: Healthy Employees, Healthy Community Chevron’s business interests and community interests are linked, so our efforts to fight disease benefit all. Chevron Nigeria Ltd. reaches out each day to people in Nigeria’s bustling cities and small towns to improve health through workplace and community-based HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis programs. While combating disease, we encounter prevailing myths and misconceptions, a social fabric that leaves women and children especially vulnerable, and a geography that makes it difficult to reach people. “We believe we can make a difference through our health programs, that we can save lives and give back hope,” said Femi Odumabo, Policy, Government and Public Affairs general manager for Chevron Nigeria Ltd. Many of the programs Chevron Nigeria Ltd. supports are part of our global strategies to help combat disease. In Nigeria, Chevron’s partnerships and programs target employees, contractors, suppliers and communities. We work together with local leaders, governments and nongovernmental organizations, youth groups, congregations, shopkeepers, and others active in the diverse communities of Nigeria. A fundamental element to operating successfully is a healthy workforce. “The threat of HIV/AIDS to our employees is inseparable from the threat it presents to communities around our operations. Taking a lead position in the fight against AIDS is the right thing to do, and it is good business,” said Andrew Fawthrop, chairman and managing director of Chevron’s Nigeria and mid-Africa operations. Information, Creating Hope As medical protocols for HIV/AIDS have evolved, communication, education and access remain hurdles. “While many people in urban centers are informed, you still meet people in rural areas who don’t know anything about the disease,” said Dr. Chinwe Okala, a Chevron public health physician. Reducing the stigma associated with the HIV infection is important to battling it, according to Okala. “A few months ago,” she said, “a colleague said he had overcome his fears and had an HIV test. He tested positive, but in the same breath added that he wasn’t worried because he knew he and his family would be fine, thanks to the training on HIV he’d received from us. When I saw his smile, I knew in his case we had made progress.” Reaching Women and Children In Africa, HIV/AIDS disproportionally affects women, increasing the risk of mother-to-child transmission. Most of the 57,000 babies born HIV-positive in Nigeria each year become infected by their mothers. Through our investment in a Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria grant in Nigeria, we have helped 50,213 HIVinfected pregnant women receive a complete course of antiretroviral treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission. And to empower women 28
$5 million in scholarships was awarded by Chevron and its Agbami partners to students in medical fields 50,000 HIV-infected pregnant women have received treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the disease 400 communities benefit from programs created by Global Memorandums of Understanding between Chevron, communities and state governments Employees at the Escravos gas plant in the Niger Delta region include (from left) electrical technicians Abigail Bateren and Akinfe Samuel, maintenance technician Adewale Adegbayi, and control systems technician Otokini Doore. 29
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