Up Close: Fighting malaria in West Africa ExxonMobil has witnessed the devastating human and economic toll malaria takes on our workforce and the communities in which we operate. In 2015, we continued making progress in the fight against malaria in high-endemic African countries where we have operations — in particular Angola, Nigeria, Tanzania, Equatorial Guinea, Chad and Cameroon. Angola For 11 years, ExxonMobil has supported Africare, an NGO committed to finding solutions for health challenges, through its community-based malaria projects in Angola. This year, ExxonMobil helped Africare scale up its community-based malaria intervention program in Quipungo, Angola.
This project focuses on the control and treatment of malaria for children and pregnant women with the following goals:
• Ensuring 85 percent of pregnant women and children under the age of five sleep under long-lasting, insecticide-treated bed nets; • 85 percent of pregnant women and children under the age of five receive appropriate malaria treatment within 24 hours of exhibiting symptoms;
• 85 percent of pregnant women receive two doses of malaria prophylaxis; and
Africare volunteers provide bed nets and malaria awareness training to local community members in Angola.
• Local nurses are trained in malaria prevention, management and treatment.
In 2015, the CORE Group, working in 12 of the 16 provinces in the country, improved the health skills of more than 2,600 community volunteers, helped administer the first and second doses of malaria prophylaxis treatment for more than 35,000 pregnant women and disseminated key malaria messages to around 265,000 Angolan families. Nigeria, Tanzania and Equatorial Guinea For the past four years, the ExxonMobil Foundation has supported Grassroot Soccer (GRS), an NGO that educates local youth in Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania on how
to prevent malaria, HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. The program’s success stems from its community-based approach that uses soccer-based games and activities to engage and educate participants. As part of this community-based approach, GRS recruits high-profile Africans, such as national team soccer players and local celebrities, to become ambassadors for the program. Since 2012, ExxonMobil has invested nearly $2.3 million to expand the program to involve more than 63,000 boys and girls in Nigeria, nearly 10,000 in Tanzania and nearly
In 2015, a network of 285 trained volunteers conducted 136,800 house visits focusing on these four international malaria control goals. Additionally, the ExxonMobil Foundation, in partnership with Africare, supports the Child Survival Collaborations and Resources (CORE) Group community malaria program in Angola. The CORE Group is a network of nonprofit international organizations committed to improving the health of women and children in high-risk malaria communities.
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