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CFAO Family Information
The scholarships are awarded to the children of non-executive African employees.
For the 2006 school year CFAO Solidarity Education will have awarded
385 scholarships in 23 African countries.
CFAO Solidarity Health AIDS This programme, launched in April 2003, and now operational in 25 countries through the CFAO subsidiaries in sub-Saharan Africa, consists in informing and increasing the employees’ awareness about the disease. Organization of voluntary aids screening sessions for the staff and care for infected persons. (For the treatment of HIV/AIDS and of opportunist diseases as they are called).
This programme is coming along reasonably well.
CFAO Solidarity is developing an anti-AIDS programme for its staff in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, a total of some 8,000 employees. Why AIDS ? The extent of the AIDS epidemic in Africa has negative consequences for the
development of the continent and for the CFAO Group, which has a significant and
long-established presence in Africa and is directly concerned on both human and
economic grounds in that its human resources are directly affected by this
scourge. The CFAO Solidarity Health and AIDS programme, which covers all Group
employees in sub-Saharan Africa, is divided into two phases : • Information, education and prevention against AIDS for employees. The action plan, was officially launched at the end of first quarter 2003, with partners able to provide the strictly controlled medical responses. By August 2006 around 80% of employees took part in awareness sessions, 487 Peer Educators had been trained, and over 45,000 condoms were being distributed monthly. The staff under medical follow up is made up of less than 100 people, which is very little and too little. · Very little, fortunately: wherever the screening tests took place, the prevalence rate was lower than the official rate of the country. This confirms what we supposed, namely that our fellow workers are in general not considered as “risk population”, by the nature of our activities, with stable and relatively trained staff. · Too little, unfortunately: the tested staff ratio is still weak. In the countries where they took place, the acceptance rate for the screening tests is in general around 20 to 25 %, with exceptions such as Cameroon, Kenya, with more than 70%, but … the people involved do not all go and fetch their test results. In all the countries (including those where the tests have not yet been organized, the number of people who have been tested represents about 18% of the total staff. The “Malaria” Guide In Africa, malaria kills as much as or even more than AIDS. 9 out of 10 cases of malaria world-wide are concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa. Logically, following the contacts and links made within SIDA-ENTREPRISES, in partnership with TOTAL and SANOFI AVENTIS, CFAO, via CFAO Solidarité, was involved in the creation of a Malaria “practical guide”. This guide is a tool box allowing our companies to start an action plan to fight malaria. Launched in July 2005, this new guide has been distributed to all CFAO companies since June 2006.
Your contact in France for further details is Alain Jabot,
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