Health
Hima Malaria Control Project |
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Hima set up this project to improve health and socio-economic status of Hima staff and the surrounding community. The purpose is to reduce illness, deaths, and socio-economic losses associated with malaria amongst Hima Cement Ltd staff, families and surrounding community through the use of Insecticide Treated Mosquito Bed Nets (ITNs).
Use of ITNs can reduce childhood mortality by as much as 63% and childhood malaria morbidity by up to 50%. Hima developed a partnership with the surrounding Organised Community Groups (OCGs) where we buy the mosquito nets for donation to needy institutions in the society (Community.
Over 6400 mosquito nets have been distributed to all households in Hima. In May 2011, Hima donated 500 insecticide treated mosquito nets to the 9 health centers which offer in-patient services in the Busongora North constituency. |
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Community Anti Retroviral Treatment Programme Project |
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Hima Cement Ltd was one of the first organisations to recognise the impact of HIV/AIDS to the workforce and community as a whole, and has had a Workplace HIV/AIDS awareness program in place since 1998. The Community Anti Retroviral Treatment Programme was launched in 2006 in partnership with Health Initiatives in the Private Sector (HIPS) This awareness program has involved the families of employees, the adjacent nursery and primary schools, other sister companies and the surrounding community.
Over the years the awareness has been in the form of:
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