Standard Chartered Bank intensifies campaign against HIV, AIDS

Standard Chartered Bank is committed to contributing to the global fight against HIV and AIDS. With no cure and effective vaccine yet at hand, Standard Chartered believes that education is the key to prevention.

Living with HIV is the bank’s global education program on HIV and AIDS, which aims to reduce the number of new infections and reduce the stigma associated with HIV.  Globally, the bank has made a pledge to the Clinton Global Initiative to educate 1 million people by 2010.  The target has been reached but Standard Chartered is bent on educating more.

Standard Chartered Philippines aims to continue to bring the Living with HIV program to greater heights. The bank is forging partnerships with organizations that share its advocacy. Just recently, the bank sealed its partnership with AIESEC Ateneo through the youth organization’s program dubbed as “Code Red”—a series of learning activities on HIV and AIDS targeting the youth.

AIESEC Ateneans learned about the realities of HIV and AIDS through a Peer Education Workshop provided by the bank. It was an opportunity to make them understand how pressing the problem is, especially in the Philippines where the incidence of new infections is rising at an alarming rate. The workshop also made them realize that everyone is vulnerable. Most importantly, it became an opportunity to let them know that they can be instruments of change by simply sharing what they learned to others and reaching out to as many young people like them as possible.