Working with partners

• UNAIDS Scenarios Development
• Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria
• Dutch Public - Private Partnership Forum

Some examples of our global partnerships to fight HIV/AIDS include:

UNAIDS Scenarios Development

Shell shared its unique scenario expertise in an innovative approach aimed at better understanding and addressing the challenge of AIDS in Africa. In partnership with UNAIDS, three different plausible alternative scenarios were developed to consider how AIDS in Africa might unfold over the next 20 years.

The scenarios highlight that AIDS cannot be addressed as merely a medical/health issue, and that social, political and economic root causes of the epidemic also need to be addressed.

The scenarios illustrate some of the major choices that the world must make in the next two decades as it responds to the AIDS epidemic in Africa. They also highlight what may happen if today’s intentions are not translated into action.

Shell is a big investor in Africa and we believe in thinking broadly and deeply about such key issues in order to better inform our actions and decisions. We recognise that AIDS is not just an issue for Africa, that no-one can tackle AIDS on their own and that there is no single course of policy and action, nor any one party/actor/group, that can bring an end to this challenge.

Involvement in this initiative has provided us with an opportunity to learn more about critical factors that affect our businesses and to contribute our own expertise. Our aim is to use the learning and insights developed in this scenario project in our further endeavours.

The project documents and material are available through the UNAIDS website - opens in new window.

Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria

Founded in 2001, the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria (GBC) has spent the past five years developing an alliance of over 200 international companies dedicated to combating the AIDS epidemic through the business sector’s unique skills and expertise.

The GBC occupies a unique position at the intersection of global business and the public health community. Recently, the organization has added Tuberculosis and Malaria to its mandate. Shell is a member of the GBC.

The GBC believes that business can respond to the AIDS epidemic in a variety of ways; such as, taking action in the workplace and extending programs into communities, by using products, innovation, skills and services creatively and by advocating for greater action by all sectors of society.

One way in which the GBC and its members work together is via an Interactive Company Case Studies Database that allows for sharing of learning examples and best practices.

Visit the GBC website to learn what Shell and other multinational companies are doing to fight HIV/AIDS in various regions of the world.

Dutch Public - Private Partnership Forum

In 2004, the Ministry for Development Cooperation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands established the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Forum together with four Dutch multinationals: Celtel, Heineken, Shell and Unilever, and the NGO PharmAccess Foundation. The objective of the PPP Forum is to promote concrete public-private joint work on HIV/AIDS.

The PPP Forum has been instrumental in developing an innovative approach to healthcare funding in Africa: the Health Insurance Fund - opens in new window (HIF). HIF will subsidize the health insurance premiums of various target groups in Africa who cannot afford to pay the premiums in full.

This combination of public and private efforts will generate enough insurance policies to create a viable private health insurance scheme in Africa.