Comments on: Malaria Ad to Air During Olympic Opening Ceremony

By: The Good: Olympic Global Health Ad and The Bad:Olympic Ethnic/Economic Cleansing? « Technology, Health & Development

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:17:38 +0000

[...] Malaria Ad to Air During Olympic Opening Ceremony [...]

By: Jes Hansen

Jes Hansen — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:14:39 +0000

I think its great that a large corporation is taking iniative and becoming involved in creating a public health campaign to increase awarenss of Malaria. Althouhg medicinal treatment is important, I hope that ExxonMobil will become more heavily involved with the prevention side of things and distributing bed nets to all those that need them. Education is also a huge part of defeating diseases in areas with endemic Malaria. This is exciting that this ad will be run during the olympics and I hope it will be a wake up call to all those who see it.

By: Rob Katz

Rob Katz — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:50:23 +0000

I’ve seen the ad twice already (during the opening ceremonies and again today.) It’s great to see Exxon Mobil spending as much as $750,000 to promote its social responsibility efforts around malaria. What’s even better is that Steven Phillips – who appears in the commercial – makes it a point to say that malaria isn’t just a CSR initiative for Exxon. Rather, it’s a business continuity issue – if Exxon’s workers are sick, the company loses money. Having a productive workforce is serious business, and Exxon appears to be serious about large scale malaria prevention activities, including insecticide-treated net distribution and even indoor residual spraying…

By: Friday Blog Roundup « The Pump Handle

Friday Blog Roundup « The Pump Handle — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:05:10 +0000

[...] Mahad Ibrahim at Technology, Health and Development informs us that one of the ads catching millions of eyeballs during NBC’s Olympics coverage will be ExxonMobil’s spot raising awareness about malaria. [...]