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Panel 6

HIV in mining communities — Fighting a threat for the whole society

Mining areas are particularly prone to HIV/AIDS.

This panel will discuss how to fight the disease and address the specific challenges of HIV/AIDS in mining communities. Why is the prevalence of infections particularly high in mining communities? What strategies are currently in place to address this problem?

Practice examples of HIV/AIDS working place policies in industrial mining companies and other environments will be discussed, including how these strategies can be adapted to ASM communities.

Speakers

Akua Ofori-Asumadu
International Labor Organization, Accra

For many years Akua Ofori-Asumadu has been a national technical coordinator on HIV/AIDS for USAID in Accra, advising Ghana’s ministry of education and its agencies. In her new position at the ILO in Ghana, she continues her work on HIV/AIDS-prevention. As part of ILO’s cooperation with three leading mining companies, for the last two years Akua Ofori-Asumadu has developed programs on workplace security and gender equality for the more than 10,000 employees of these companies. She is the author of a manual on HIV/AIDS-prevention as well as a training program for HIV/AIDS mainstreaming.

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Presentation: HIV/AIDS and Work Place Policies in Industrial Mining Companies. By Akua Ofori-Asumadu.
PDF, English, 1.1 MB, PDF, French, 1.1 MB
Full text version: PDF, English, 213 kB

Maxwell Hammond
German Technical Cooperation, Accra

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Presentation: HIV & TB Work Place Program for Revenue Agencies (IRS,CEPS & VAT). By Maxwell Hammond
PDF, English, 2.7 MB

Leonard Ndeki
African Medical and Research Foundation, Mwanza

For almost twenty years, Leonard Y. Ndeki has been a project officer at the Geita Mine Health Project of the African Medical and Research Foundation, conducting health surveys in local mines with a focus on Malaria prevention. He has also worked as a researcher and educator, training field staff on how to conduct field research and maintain community relations.

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Presentation: Combating HIV and AIDS and Other STIs: A Case of Mining Community in Tanzania. By Ndeki, Leonard.
PDF, English, 514 kB, PDF, French, 649 kB

Moderated by:

Erick Maville
Global Business Action on HIV / AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Paris

Erick Maville is the regional director of the European office of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria initiative. He supports member companies of the initiative by providing expertise on HIV/AIDS prevention, therapy and care, and helps them take advantage of opportunities for cooperating with other actors in this area. With a doctorate in science, Erick has been working for ten years on HIV/AIDS. A lot of this time was spent in Africa, where he had provided advisory services to the Centre for Childhood and Family in Côte d'Ivoire and the UNDP in Burkina Faso.