Home » Plans to Expand the Bamburi Cement Ltd. HIV/AIDS Workplace Programme
For more than two years now GTZ Health Sector Programme has been supporting Bamburi Cement Ltd. to implement a HIV/AIDS workplace programme for its approximately 10,000 workers and their dependants, branches and their contractor companies. Plans are now underway to expand the workplace programme activities, including broadening of the approach.
There are also plans to setup health promotion workplace programmes with incorporated HIV/ADS modules as well as focus more on transport workers and communities in the neighbourhood of Bamburi.
The objective of the project is to enhance access to health promotion services in general and in particular to Malaria and HIV/AIDS prevention by the target beneficiaries. Three communities, close to the Mombasa branch of Bamburi Cement Ltd., as well as bar maids working close to the Mlolongo Health Centre are included in the project activities.
To achieve this objective, key public health and health promotion problems will be addressed by creating interactive processes and approaches using a mix of communication channels. This will encourage and sustain positive and appropriate healthy behaviour of Bamburi Cement Ltd. contractor companies’ workforce, their families and neighbouring communities, and enhance collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, the Kenya HIV and AIDS Business Council (KHBC), Baobab Trust and Northern Star Foundation.
Special attention will be focused on hard to reach transport workers of Bamburi contractor companies who are in particular vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases in order to ensure their access to health promotion and health services.
The project targets 500 contractor companies’ employees and their extended family members (3000) and approximately 500 truck drivers of contractor companies as well as approximately 50 bar maids. It is further planned that health promotion services would be provided to approximately 100,000 people (adults and youth) in the targeted communities. The project will comprise three components as follows:
- Mainstreaming of Workplace Programme;
- Tailor-made health promotion for truck drivers and bar maid;
- Awareness creation in the communities.
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