This document summarizes Unilever Tea Kenya's comprehensive HIV/AIDS program that extends beyond the workplace. The program began in 2003 with the goal of extending HIV awareness and prevention efforts to tea outgrowers, youth, and the general community surrounding Unilever's tea estates. It describes components of the workplace program including awareness/education, prevention, care/support, and collaboration. It then outlines efforts to implement peer education programs in the surrounding community through youth ambassadors, community organizations, and tea outgrowers to address gaps in HIV knowledge and continue efforts beyond the workplace. Challenges and lessons learned are discussed, along with successes in community health outcomes and partnerships.

1. UNILEVER TEA KENYA
MANAGING A
COMPREHENSIVE
PROGRAM THAT MOVES
BEYOND THE WORKPLACE
15th JUNE 2006

3. UNILEVER TEA KENYA LTD HIV/AIDS
ABOUT THE COMPANY
• Tea plantation company with estates in four districts
•18,000 employees majority of whom are permanently
employed
•100,000 employees and dependants living on company
premises and with medical cover

8. UNILEVER TEA KENYA LTD HIV/AIDS
ABOUT THE COMPANY
• Housing
•Water and Sanitation
•Roads and engineering works
•Schools -- 23
•Medical care . Hospital and 4 medical
centres

13. UNILEVER TEA KENYA LTD
HIV/AIDS
WHY HIV PROGRAMS?
Reduced healthcare/medical costs
Healthier workforce
Sick-off/ absenteeism.
Training costs
Funeral expenses

14. COMPONENTS OF THE
PROGRAM
•AWARENESS AND EDUCATION
•PREVENTION
•CARE AND SUPPORT
•COLLABORATION WITH OTHER
ORGANISATIONS
•COMMUNITY OUTREACH

15. AWARENESS & EDUCATION
PROGRAMS
•Company policy on HIV and AIDS
•New employee induction exercise on HIV
•Video shows
•HIV messages on payslips
•Pamphlets
•Lectures, workplace discussions
•Slogan on HIV “Tumaini kwa wote”

16. Workplace programs cont..
•Addressing stigma by PLWHA Involvement-
GIPA, Support groups, Ambassadors of Hope
•VCT centres and mobile VCT
•Care and support programs- HAART clinic for
employees and dependants

17. VCT PROGRAME CASES
Total 6741
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd Qtr 4th Qtr
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006

18. Workplace programs cont..
PEER EDUCATION
Training of Trainers - 16
Roll out of peer educators – 269
Workplace discussions
Refresher courses

21. UNILEVER TEA KENYA
GTZ-KTGA
MOVING BEYOND THE
WORKPLACE
15TH JUNE 2006

22. BACKGROUND
•Started in 2003
•Extending HIV programs to the community
•Targets
– Tea Out-growers
– The youth
– General Community

25. RATIONALE FOR MOVING
BEYOND THE WORKPLACE
•Interaction between the Unilever community and the outer
community
•Gap in the KABP* between the workforce and the surrounding
community
•Partnership with GTZ
*Knowledge Attitudes Behaviour and Practices

26. STEPS IN PROGRAM
FORMULATION
Discussion with stakeholders; The company
Executives, Partners, The community
Strategy (peer education)
Implementation

27. Why Peer Education?
•Sustainability
•Effective tool in behaviour change
•Cost effective; Time and Resources
•Addresses Culture Issues
•Multi-tasking(VCT referral,STI
referral,community mobiliser,co-ordinator)

28. PEER EDUCATION
Peer Educators-trained to;
• facilitate discussions
• plan meetings
• Condom distribution systems
• VCT and STI referrals
• Community mobilisation

29. YOUTH PROGRAM
STRATEGY
•Youth Peer education
•Inception meetings; parents, education
officers, school heads, teachers
•Teachers’ Trainers of Trainer(TOTs)
nominations
•TOT training
•Youth-- “Ambassadors of Change”

33. OUTGROWERS/COMMUNITY
PROGRAMS
• peer education program
•Tea growing community
•Target hotspot areas
• 160 community members in the tea growing
• Community Based Organisations (CBOs)
– Educate, mobilise,distribute condoms
• 5 CBOs to cover regions

35. SOURCES OF SUPPORT FOR
SUCCESS OF PROGRAM
•Support from the top (company executives)
•Enthusiasm of the staff
•Support from partners and donors e.g. Walter
Reed Project , GTZ

36. CHALLENGES
•The novelty of HIV work
•Time for HIV activities away from usual
business
•Burn-out, including motivation
•Resources

37. WAY FORWARD
Sustainability of the programs
•Revamping of the programs- growth
•Ownership by the communities
•Technical support

38. Lessons learnt
Start simple -- Build on it
Support from the top.
Networking.
Empower members of staff and team work
Meet communities needs
Use what has worked
Encourage communities to own it

39. successes
•Reduced absenteeism at the workplace
•Healthier Unilever Tea Community
•Benefits to the surrounding community
•Benefits to other companies-Best practice
•Global recognition - Global Business Coalition

42. Feed Back from the community;
• “we are really happy because this problem is
very serious in my village..people are dying..”
• “..at the village, we never used to talk about
HIV,it was almost taboo..but now, I tell them
everything frankly, according to the training
we got..and they ask me questions..”
• “We teachers are excited about this program.
I am going to go home and start with the
teenagers in my house!”

43. Collaborating Partners
Walter Reed
The PEPFAR Project
GTZ
Ministry of Health
NASCOP
The Kenya HIV/AIDS Business Council
KTGA
NOPE, SWAK

44. Thank you