Watch this video to see how Kinross is helping to reduce malaria rates at Chirano and in the surrounding communities through the Chirano Malaria Control Program.
The Company has invested $7.4 million on the program, which has reduced malaria rates by 84% among employees, their dependents and contractors, and by 46% in nine neighbouring communities.
Ghana has approximately three million new cases of malaria every year, and the region where Chirano is located is in a high-risk area.
The program helps prevent the spread of malaria using three techniques: house spraying, providing bed nets to keep mosquitoes out, and controlling mosquitoes in stagnant water bodies.
House spraying using World Health Organization approved insecticides to control mosquitoes and reduce malaria rates
