Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

What are we doing?

1. Core business activities

In Nigeria, The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has executed their workplace HIV/AIDS programme in collaboration with various NGOs

Implementing HIV/AIDS workplace programmes. Shell takes the issue of HIV/AIDS seriously. It affects our employees, our contractors, suppliers, customers and impacts our business environment. We believe we can make a contribution to help mitigate the spread of the disease. Shell has implemented its company-wide on HIV/AIDS globally, aiming at the provision of prevention, care and treatment programmes. Shell creates ongoing partnerships with relevant local and global organisations to fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic collectively. Guidelines are in place in our operations in Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Middle East and Russia, with a sustained focus on sub-Saharan Africa, where the epidemic is taking the greatest toll.
 

2. Social investment

Providing support to HIV/AIDS, malaria and other health programmes. Several Shell companies have programmes in place. Some examples:

• In East Africa, our retail stations used posters to help raise public awareness about HIV/AIDS.
• In Nigeria, The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has taken an integrated approach to tackling HIV/AIDS in the Niger Delta, involving workplace committee coordination efforts, high quality clinical care for employees and dependents, outreach to contractors and community health investment.
• In Cote d’Ivoire, Shell has established an HIV/AIDS awareness centre with local NGOs to train people to visit local schools and promote HIV prevention.
• The Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd, the UNAIDS, the Sakhalin Regional Authorities and other key local stakeholders officially agreed to jointly address HIV/AIDS on the Island. To date, with Shell’s support, the hospital infrastructure on the island has been upgraded, including its standards for dealing with HIV/AIDS. Shell is also supporting school awareness programme and training of volunteers.

3. Partnerships, policy dialogue and advocacy

Participating in partnerships: We work in partnership with relevant local and global organisations and other key stakeholders to address HIV/AIDS and Malaria. For example:

• Shell provided scenario planning expertise to a UN AIDS project to better understand and address the challenge of AIDS in Africa (PDF, 5179 KB) - opens in new window.
• In 2004, Shell, Heineken, Unilever, Celtel, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Pharm Access Foundation (NGO) established a Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) on HIV/AIDS. The purpose of this PPP is to explore opportunities for more structural cooperation and collaboration with national organizations to address HIV/AIDS jointly, as all companies have workplace programs on HIV/AIDS in place.
• In June 2006, an AIDS Business Coalition in the Arab Region (ABCAR) was created. Shell played a crucial role in this establishment and will, as the Vice Chair of this Coalition, contribute significantly to future involvements of the private sector in the response to HIV/AIDS in the Arab region.
• On 1st December 2006 the Ibani-se initiative was launched on Bonny Island. It is a public-private partnership initiative, which is designed to help combat HIV/AIDS in the community neighbouring the LNG plant for the long term. Shell’s support for Ibani-se is in the form of financial participation through the Joint Industry Council of Bonny Island (NLNG, SPDC, ExxonMobil). Other partners in this initiative are Merck Pharmaceuticals and the Bonny Kingdom Development Committee, which consists of respected elders and other influential island figures.
• Shell is a member of the Global Business Coalition (GBC) on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. GBC has spent the past seven years developing an alliance of over 200 international companies dedicated to combating the AIDS epidemic through the business sector’s unique skills and expertise.
• In Nigeria, The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has executed their workplace HIV/AIDS programme in collaboration with various NGOs including the United Nations, Institute of Human Virology, Planned Parenthood Foundation Nigeria (PPFN), Population Service International (PSI), Family Health International (FHI), Society For Family Health and PharmAccess Foundation.