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HEINEKEN will be hosting a symposium on the role that business needs to play to help address the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa.

View the programme here.
Read more about the speakers and panelists here.
For the live webcast, click here. (available on 31 March at 2pm)

Press registration:
Please contact us via +31 20 5239 355 or send an email to john-paul.schuirink@HEINEKEN.com

Brewing a Better Future
One of our Brewing a Better Future commitments is to empower our people and the communities in which we operate.

Caring is part of the way we run our business and through the HEINEKEN Cares initiative we ensure our employees, no matter where they work, have access to basic pre-defined levels of health care. This way of doing is not new to us.

1980s
Multinationals began to redefine the limits of their own responsibilities in the provision of health care. HEINEKEN was a pioneer in this area since the early 1980s, working and collaborating with a range of aid organisations. Our breweries in Africa - as well as other markets where governments did and do not provide sufficient healthcare - built their own clinics and trained staff.

1998
A programme to prevent Mother to Child transmission of HIV was started in Bralima-Kinshasa (DRC). 

Since 2001
HEINEKEN HIV/AIDS Policy adopted and implemented.

HEINEKEN included AIDS treatment in the already existing HIV/AIDS prevention programmes and the medical package available in the clinics.

2007
HEINEKEN organised a Health Care Symposium in Amsterdam to highlight and examine the ongoing debate about the role of business and the private sector in the provision and support of health care services in resource-poor settings. See also http://www.symposium.HEINEKEN.com

2008
HEINEKEN committed € 10 million to establish the HEINEKEN Africa Foundation (HAF). The foundation supports the improvement of health for people living in Sub-Saharan African communities by financially supporting relevant health projects and health-related education. HAF supported already projects fighting HIV in Africa.

2009
HEINEKEN doubled the investment with an additional € 10 million, which allows HAF to allocate € 1 million a year on community healthcare projects in Sub-Saharan Africa.

30 March 2011
Dr. Stefaan Van der Borght, Director Global Health Affairs at HEINEKEN International, awarded with a doctorate by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Amsterdam on his thesis "Making HIV programmes work".

31 March 2011
HEINEKEN organises a HIV/AIDS Symposium in Amsterdam.

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