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Our action
7
consists in supporting the Campaign, conduct follow-up and assessment,
and then make recommendations after an audit of the HIV prevention activities led
by subcontractors.
This is a first survey that can be used as a baseline to obtain the essential HIV/AIDS
prevention Knowledge and Practices indicators for the Ambatovy Project employees
and to be extended to other sites or other subcontractors later.
Our objectives are,
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Actions:
•
Support the launching of the HIV/AIDS Campaign, namely during the
celebration of the International AIDS Day on December 1st, 2009
At least 50% of the Plant Site population should hear the messages on
HIV/AIDS for a period of two (2) months.
At least 5, 000 condoms will be distributed at the Plant
At least once a week, all HSE send messages on HIV/AIDS and STDs
during toolbox sessions
Five HIV and STDs specification sheets will be developed and used by HSE
•
Implement and monitor the reporting system of companies’ prevention
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Research:
Audit the subcontractors on what they have accomplished in the HIV/AIDS
prevention and present the results.
•
Provide Diagram indicators on knowledge and practices of each
subcontractor’s employees on HIV/AIDS prevention
•
Analyze and compare subcontractors’ indicator levels
•
Deduct necessary recommendations from subcontractors’ regular HIV
prevention and the toolbox observation.
METHODS
D
ECEMBER
1
ST
, 2009
CELEBRATION AT THE
P
LANT
S
ITE
In agreement with the Project Departments, respectively in charge of relations with
subcontractors companies, and corporate and social responsibilities, we wanted to celebrate
the International AIDS Day by reaching the maximum number of workers at the Plant Site.
We thus decided, with the CIS (Catering International Service) team, a subcontractor of the
Project, to organize the celebration of December 1st. For this, we established some
animation stands at lunchtime, between 11 and 2pm, at the entrances of the 2 big
restaurants as well as at the 3rd 'satellite' restaurant of the Plant Site.
We collaborated closely with the CIS Recreation team, which has the human resources -
technicians, animators, peer educators - and the equipments needed for this kind of event -
stand installation, sound system, and projectors.
We ran movies and spotlights, showed a range of posters and booklets provided by the CNLS
of Tamatave and PSI/M. We made available at the stand some male condoms and new
