Chevron Workplace AIDS Prevention Programme - Nigeria

The programme consists of a lecture of basic facts on HIV/AIDS blended with jokes, cartoons, poetry, drama, music video shows and moonlight story telling. Question-and-answer sessions and provision of comprehensive handouts on HIV/AIDS/STDs, safer sex practices, condom promotion and positive living complement this basic lecture. There is also condom promotion, treatment of STDs, and voluntary confidential counseling and testing with PMTCT. Workshops on HIV/AIDS in the workplace for health workers, managers and union leaders are currently ongoing to increase the positive impact of this intervention.
Other programmes such as the Chevron's Adolescent Reproductive Health Programme, Field-Based Oil Workers Peer Education Programme, the Youth Clinic with a Hotline, and Chevron Adolescent RH Klub complement these AIDS prevention efforts.
The Company has also been involved in internet training of female journalists in AIDS prevention, yearly celebration of the World AIDS Day and Candlelight Memorial ceremony. There is also the annual Chevron Youth Festival of Life (C-YOU-LIFE) to celebrate CNL's efforts, cares and concerns for adolescents.

A workplace policy initiated in 1998 is being updated and a multi-departmental approach is being coordinated by the by the Medical Unit to increase the success of this programme. CWAPP became popular with employees, accepted by management and has led to a better hostcommunity-company relationship, with reduction in STDs seen at the Tank Farm clinic. The communities have started to respond to the challenges of HIV/AIDS while the company is looking at the social, political, medical and economic issues surrounding HIV/AIDS.This CWAPP programme is now part of UNAIDS Best Practice document on Business Responses to HIV/AIDS.
The programme is based on the premise that workplace-based AIDS Prevention programmes are cost-effective, sustainable and can be replicated at different business settings and workplaces with minor modifications. And that workplace-based AIDS prevention programmes must target not only employees but also the community where they operate.