Another of our core values, care and respect, forms the basis of all of the Group’s health programmes. Our vision is that no employee is harmed by working at our operations, and that the health of those who work for us is improved.
Anglo American and NGO World Vision have recently completed the refurbishment of a health centre in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in an effort to improve conditions for pregnant women and their babies.
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During a roundtable event held by the Guardian newspaper (UK) and sponsored by Anglo American, a number of senior representatives from NGOs, industry associations and academic circles – including the Gates Foundation, ICMM and Open University – came together to discuss numerous topics under the topic of 'Making Health a Central Tenet of Sustainable Development’.
This $7.4 million project serves about 70,000 people living in 21 villages in the rural Bushbuckridge area of South Africa. The centre aims to tackle the effect of HIV/AIDS and the devastating impacts of tuberculosis and malaria.
It has been a number of years since the inception of the company’s HIV/AIDS anti-retroviral treatment (ART) programme and, while the challenge remains immense, many useful lessons have been learnt.
Kumba’s Sishen mine’s Gogi Modise Wellness clinic, at Kathu township in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, opened in December 2007 and is providing much-needed health care services to the community, employees and many local contractors.