HIV/AIDS and Malaria

HIV/AIDS

• An internal auditing process was implemented in the South Africa region, based on a comprehensive risk assessment which focuses on both the health service's wellness programme and workplace prevention programmes.
• AHS became more involved in the management of HIV/AIDS in the African operations, outside of South Africa, and more detailed data collection is being targeted for 2005.
• The provision of anti-retroviral therapy at Geita hospital (by the State and supported by the mine) in Tanzania for Geita mine's employees and dependents began in November 2004.
• The annual Geita gold mine Kilimanjaro challenge undertaken to raise funds for HIV/AIDS programmes raised $150,000 in 2004.
• ART roll-out for employees at the Navachab mine in Namibia commenced in April 2004, to support the VCT and wellness programme already in place.

Malaria:

• A scientific, $1.6 million malaria campaign is proposed at Obuasi in Ghana.
• At Geita in Tanzania, resident mosquito species identification and insecticide-resistance profiling was completed in 2004, in preparation for the development of an integrated malaria programme.
• An integrated malaria control programme, introduced at Morila in Mali in 2003, has reduced the incidence of malaria significantly. (See graph below.)

Malaria Frequency Rate - Morila