Investment to Combat HIV/AIDS
PharmAccess African Studies to Evaluate
Resistance (PASER)
Bonnes Routes
Project King's Hope
health of those living in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Foundation
has €20 million of capital that can fund projects to the
value of€l million per year. HIV/AIDS, which remains a
serious social and economic issue, is top of the list of
priorities for the Foundation.
Fleineken has been providing a FIIV/AIDS prevention
and treatment initiative to all its Sub-Saharan Africa
employees and their dependents since 2001. Aimed
at preventing FIIV, as well as providing health care and
support for those affected, the programme provides
education, free condoms, voluntary counselling, testing
and treatment to tens of thousands of people. The
successful scheme has been extended to a number of
supply chain companies in Nigeria, following a successful
pilot project. A similar project has just been launched
for Bralima and their supply chain companies in the
Democratic Republic of Congo.
Fleineken is also committed to sustainable agriculture
and aims to source an average of 60% of raw materials
locally in Africa by 2020. Fleineken continues to expand
local sourcing projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, including
sorghum projects in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and
Burundi, a rice project in the Democratic Republic of
Congo, maize in Rwanda, and barley in Egypt.
The future for Fleineken in Africa is bright. Tom expects
Nigerian consumption to grow from 11 litres to 17 litres
per head per year in the coming five to eight years. "This
will easily add an extra nine million hectolitres per year
to our Nigerian volume. We are also optimistic about beer
consumption in central Africa," he says. "Ethiopia, which
is Africa's largest country by population after Nigeria, also
offers significant growth potential as the average beer
consumption per head is only three litres per year."
In March this year, Heineken hosted an FIIV/
AIDS symposium in Amsterdam, themed 'Sharing
Responsibilities in the "World of Work" in Africa',
to discuss the ongoing challenges in the areas
of funding, increased resistance of FIIV/AIDS to
treatment, and increasing access to medicine.
In addition to raising awareness, Fleineken also
announced three new projects - PASER, Bonnes
Routes and Project King's Flope - to be funded
through the Fleineken Africa Foundation.
PASER is the largest project in Sub-Saharan Africa
that aims to monitor drug resistance in FIIV patients.
More than 3,000 adults across six countries are
checked by 15 clinics and laboratories and thanks
to backing by Fleineken, Nigeria has been added to
the list of participating countries. Both adults and
children will be included in the study of the Highly
Active Anti retroviral Therapy.
Located in the Democratic Republic of Congo, this
initiative, financially supported by Heineken, consists
of two established roadside clinics that provide
services to 25,000 people every year. General health
care, as well as HIV/AIDS prevention advice and
treatment, are provided. Depending on the success
of the current roadside clinics, more could be
implemented to improve coverage in the area.
Project King's Hope provides health care, as well as
other measures that will help improve the quality of
life, to those infected with HIV/AIDS. The beneficiaries
of this project currently reside in the area of
Olievenhoutbosch in the Gauteng Province.
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