Dr Thuthula Balfour-Kaipa Health Adviser Chamber of Mines HIV and AIDS Accountability, Reporting and Sustainability in the Mining Environment 5 th SA AIDS

Dr Thuthula Balfour-KaipaHealth Adviser

Chamber of Mines

HIV and AIDS Accountability, Reporting and Sustainability in the Mining Environment

5th SA AIDS Conference, Durban, 7-10 June 2011

Outline of presentation

• Why are we mining?• Sustainable development and reporting

frameworks• HIV and AIDS and reporting frameworks• Implementation of reporting frameworks• Challenges• Conclusions

Products of mining


Sustainable development

• “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”– Brundtland Commission, 1987.


Sustainable development framework for minerals sector

Governance

Environmental

Participatory democracy

Transparency

Accountability


International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Sustainable development frameworkInternational Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM)

Company members required to implement:

•Ethical business practices, sound corporate governance•Human rights, respect for cultures•Continual improvement on H&S performance•Environmental performance

Report performance against the 10 principles in accordance with Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines.

Third-party verification


HIV and sustainability

• “The HIV & AIDS epidemic continues to have a significant impact on the company’s employees, their dependants as well as the local and labour-sending communities. This effect is felt through absenteeism, reduced performance and loss of skills to the company, and the economic burden on individual households when the breadwinner becomes ill or dies.” Harmony, 2010


Reporting frameworks for HIV and AIDS


ICMM Good Practice Guidance on HIV/AIDS,

Tuberculosis and Malaria

• Peer education• VCT• Condom distribution• Acceptability• Treatment effectiveness• Absenteeism• Disability/death


Mining Charter

“Improvement of the industry’s mine health and safety performance” – 12% “Adherence to HIV and AIDS and TB Guidelines”


Tripartite HIV and AIDS Implementation Plan

• % of mineworkers who received VCT• Proportion of workers receiving ART and

those receiving Cotrimoxazole • No. of employees receiving PMTCT services• No. of male and female condoms distributed

per mine


Chamber of Mines Sustainability Report

VCT employees attended Number

Estimated HIV / AIDS Prevalence rate).

%

Percentage. HIV positive employees on Wellness programme %

Percentage HIV positive employees on ART %


Company sustainability reports

• Board Committees on Sustainability • Reporting on:

– Percentage employees that have accessed VCT– Percentage on wellness programmers– Percentage on ARVs– Community initiatives on health and HIV and AIDS


ImplementationFramework Frequency of reporting Comment

Mining Charter Yearly Effective 30 June 2011

Tripartite HIV and AIDS Biennial Last report 2006, Draft report 2010

Chamber Sustainability Report

Biennial Last report 2007Unpublished 2009

Company Sustainability Reports

Yearly Produced yearly

HCT Campai

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Challenges

• Multiplicity of reporting requirements• Clarity of definitions and denominators• Focus on safety and environment persists• Dissemination of information limited


Conclusion

• Companies take sustainability reporting very seriously.

• A lot of information is available on HIV and AIDS.

• Mining Charter reporting requirements will increase focus on HIV and AIDS and improve accountability.


THANK YOU


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Dr Thuthula Balfour-Kaipa Health Adviser Chamber of Mines HIV and AIDS Accountability, Reporting and Sustainability in the Mining Environment 5 th SA AIDS