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17 Feb 2012

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Biz Community News [South Africa]

Engen partners with support for International Change to fight HIV/AIDS [Tanzania]

Engen Petroleum [part of Petronas] has partnered with Support for International Change (SIC), a Tanzania-based organisation, to help drive its campaigns to eliminate the spread of HIV/AIDS and empower rural communities...[by] donating up to 2 000 litres of diesel per month to the organisation...The contribution is adding much-needed impetus to SIC's community services, which include mobile voluntary counselling and testing, running awareness campaigns, treatment and community-based training and supervision...On World AIDS day, Engen's assistance enabled SIC staff to reach Nduruma, where over 200 people were tested for HIV.