Workplace initiatives
Our approach
Xstrata operates in locations with high or rapidly growing prevalence of HIV and AIDS, in particular South Africa, where we employ over 21,000 employees and contractions and up to one in five adults are HIV-positive. In all high or growing risk regions, we implement confidential, voluntary HIV and AIDS counseling, testing and treatment programmes for employees and contractors in the workplace.
In 2007, a first-of-its-kind public-private partnership agreement was signed between Xstrata, Re-Action! and the Mpumulanga provincial health authorities. Through this agreement and working closely with the provincial government’s services, Xstrata Coal has supported health service strengthening in two of the provinces' health districts.
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