ExxonMobil Continues Support for Fight Against Malaria
25 Abril 2019 - 1:51PM
Business Wire
- Efforts focused on prevention and
delivering life-saving tools and health services
- $170 million invested since corporate
initiative began nearly two decades ago
- 700,000 health workers trained, 15
million bed nets and 5 million treatments delivered since 2000
ExxonMobil said today that it is committing $5.7 million in
support for local and global organizations working to eliminate
malaria around the world. This year’s grants, announced in
conjunction with World Malaria Day, will continue the company’s
nearly 20-year effort to reduce the global burden of malaria, a
disease that still causes an estimated 435,000 deaths annually
despite being preventable, treatable and curable.
ExxonMobil’s malaria initiative has worked to advance progress
against malaria though partnerships focused on developing the next
generation of global health leaders and building health system
capacity by supporting education and improving access to tools for
malaria prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
“We focus our attention on local and global organizations that
deliver health services and supplies directly to affected
communities,” said Kevin Murphy, president of the ExxonMobil
Foundation. “While great progress continues to be made in saving
lives from malaria around the world, important work remains to
prevent the disease’s resurgence.”
ExxonMobil works with partners in Angola, Cameroon, Chad,
Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Nigeria and Papua New Guinea to
identify and promote solutions to fight the disease. Activities and
public events planned in those countries to commemorate World
Malaria Day include voluntary testing and counseling sessions,
mosquito net distribution, community events and public awareness
campaigns.
2019 grant recipients include ADPP Angola, Africare, Baylor
College of Medicine, Corporate Alliance on Malaria in Africa
(CAMA), Friends of the Global Fight, Grassroot Soccer, Harvard T.H.
Chan School of Public Health, Jhpiego, Malaria No More, PATH
Malaria Vaccine Initiative, Seed Global Health, Special Olympics,
Tchova Tchova, ExxonMobil Global Health Scholars at the University
of Oxford and Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network
(WWARN).
Since 2000, ExxonMobil has invested a total of $170 million,
supporting the delivery of 15 million bed nets to prevent mosquito
bites, the administration of 5 million antimalarial treatments and
the distribution of 3.9 million rapid diagnostic kits. The company
has also supported the training of 700,000 health workers.
About the ExxonMobil Foundation
The ExxonMobil Foundation is the primary philanthropic arm of
Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM). The foundation and corporation
engage in a range of philanthropic activities that advance
education, promote women as catalysts for economic development and
combat malaria. In 2018, the ExxonMobil Foundation together with
Exxon Mobil Corporation, its divisions and affiliates along with
employees and retirees, provided $211 million in contributions
worldwide. For more information, visit
www.exxonmobil.com/community.
About ExxonMobil
ExxonMobil, the largest publicly traded international oil and
gas company, uses technology and innovation to help meet the
world’s growing energy needs. ExxonMobil holds an industry-leading
inventory of resources, is one of the largest refiners and
marketers of petroleum products, and its chemical company is one of
the largest in the world. For more information, visit
www.exxonmobil.com or follow us on Twitter
www.twitter.com/exxonmobil.
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