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SPDC’s Community Health Services
Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria’s (SPDC’s) approach to
helping communities in the Niger Delta overcome poverty and meet their
basic needs is through Community Development: to empower the
communities by helping to build their capacity and confidence to take
the lead role in decisions for their own development. In the area of
health care, Shell Nigeria works alongside partners towards a more
coordinated strategy to diminish the spread of HIV & AIDS.
The company has worked with various civil society and government
partners to raise awareness and provide greater avenues for prevention,
care and treatment for HIV & AIDS in the Niger Delta.
For
example, SPDC worked with Family Health International (FHI), the
National Action Committee on AIDS (NACA), Ministries of Health, and
State Action Committees on AIDS on the Niger Delta AIDS Response Project (NiDAR)
to establish high-quality HIV & AIDS comprehensive care, treatment
and support services in 5 SPDC-supported cottage hospitals in the Niger
Delta, the first such facilities of their kind in Nigeria. In the Afam Out of School Youth Programme (OSY), SPDC
and its implementing partner, Society for Family Health (SFH),
developed peer education programs for both out-of-school and in-school
youth in the Afam
community of Rivers and Abia States, to improve their sexual
and reproductive health in order to reduce the transmission of HIV
& AIDS in the community.
To support and
commemorate World AIDS Day in 2006, SPDC held the “Shell AIDS Schools’
Challenge”, an HIV & AIDS quiz competition among secondary schools
in the Niger Delta.
Read more about the
Shell AIDS Schools Challenge:
Brief on Shell AIDS Schools Challenge.pdf and
Shell AIDS Schools Challenge – Prex Report.pdf
For more about SPDC, visit http://www.shell.com/home/Framework?siteId=nigeria
LAGOS
Freeman House
21/22 Marina, Lagos
PMB 2418
Lagos
Tel: 01 2769999
PORT-HARCOURT
P.O.Box 263
Shell Industrial Area
Rumuobiakani
Port Harcourt, Rivers State
Tel: 084 429999
WARRI
P.O.Box 230
Warri, Delta State
Tel: 053 449999
ABUJA
House 13, Shell Trustees Estate
Madeira Street
Off Shehu Shagari Way
Maitama, Abuja
FCT
Tel: 09 413 8110
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