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Malaria Prevention Partnerships; A Strategic Health Management Approach

Lead Organisation:

Exxon Mobil Corporation

Where:

Sub-Saharan Africa

Time period:

on-going since 2000

Web link:

Partners:

Roll Back Malaria (R.B.M.)

Aims/Objectives:

	Malaria Prevention Partnerships is based on a life-cycle approach; facilitating the interdependent partnerships necessary to ensure sustainable impacts that will endure beyond the life of the project:
	The objectives of the partnership initiative are to foster sustainable improvements in the health of the communities in which ExxonMobil operates.
	With the goal of combating malaria within employees and the dependent base, ExxonMobil created a comprehensive Malaria Control Program focused on prevention and early diagnosis treatment.
	Through multi-tier partnerships at the regional, country and community level, ExxonMobil aims to strengthen the impact of country-specific R.B.M. plans. In-kind initiatives and direct funding of local NGO's facilitates implementation of R.B.M. initiatives focused on bed net distributions and community access to effective anti-malarial medications.
	Recognising that mounting parasite resistance to anti-malaria drugs is in the critical path to progress against the disease, ExxonMobil focused its support on two fronts: new drug discovery and new drug development.

Measurable results and specific targets:

	To help achieve the goal of fostering sustainable improvements in the health of the communities where we operate, ExxonMobil pioneered a concept called Strategic Health Management (S.H.M.). This concept provides a framework for incorporating workforce and community health considerations into project planning.
	Incorporating S.H.M. in business planning allows for timely coordination and cooperation with other involved parties, including community health leaders, to establish long-term partnerships focused on priority health challenges. This systematic approach to partnership building is vital to ensuring sustainability.
	Ultimately, sustainability will be measured by documented enhancements in the delivery of improved health care to local citizens beyond ExxonMobil's tenure in such countries.

Implementation mechanisms and further application:

	The program is currently applied in Africa within ExxonMobil's workforce which is in excess of 6,000 people working in over 30 countries.
	In Nigeria, ExxonMobil is partnered with efforts of the New Nigeria Foundation as it sets up health clinics in nine Niger Delta states. Insecticide treated beds will be distributed and pre-packaged drugs will be available. Training of health workers and distribution of educational materials is also underway.
	In Chad, ExxonMobil is distributing 32,000 bed nets. Nurses who already work for Chad's national health service are being trained and will go into villages, meet with local population, offer preventive malaria health education, and then distribute the bed nets. A year later, the nurses will return to teach the owners of the bed nets how to dip them in insecticide and dry them.
	In Equatorial Guinea, ExxonMobil has focused its R.B.M. support on efforts on children under five years old. Many national employees have volunteered to help with the bed net distribution.
	In Angola, ExxonMobil has provided bed nets and anti-malaria medicines to the main pediatrics hospital located in Luanda.
	In Cameroon, ExxonMobil is providing 45,000 bed nets and working through local NGOs, is undertaking educational programs to encourage proper use, as well as developing public communication materials to foster greater awareness of the disease.