National business coalitions on HIV/AIDS

Fighting HIV Depends on Managers' Commitment [Mozambique]

Author: Agência de Informação de Moçambique (AIM)

Preventing and fighting against HIV in Mozambican workplaces requires commitment on the part of their managers, according to Cornelio Balane, the Executive Director of the Association of Businesses against AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis (ECOSIDA)....

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World AIDS Day 2011

Author: Compiled by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Below is a selection of items about company inititiaves relating to HIV/AIDS, issued on the occasion of World AIDS Day 2011 (1 December). Also, inlcuded are news stories urging greater private sector action and legal protections against workplace...

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• Related companies: Apple Barrick Gold First Quantum Minerals Gap Gilead Sciences Johnson & Johnson Kenneth Cole L'Oreal MAC Cosmetics (part of Estée Lauder) Mercedes-Benz (part of Daimler) Nike PepsiCo SABMiller Scotiabank UBS

What has AIDS got to do with business? [Singapore]

Author: Chong Ai Ling, The Online Citizen [Singapore]

The main commitment of businesses is to their bottomline, and most businesses stay away from culturally taboo issues such as AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). However a local Non-Governmental-Organisation, Business Coalition on AIDS...

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Business boost for Nepal’s AIDS response

Author: UNAIDS

Nepal’s AIDS response has received a business boost with the launch of a national Business Coalition on AIDS (BCAN). The Coalition brings together multiple Nepalese private sector companies, leaders, innovators and industrialists to work collectively...

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$233 million earmarked to reduce HIV prevalence

Author: Jamaica Information Service

The Ministry of Health's project [commenced in October 2009] to reduce HIV prevalence among persons deemed most at risk has been boosted this fiscal year by a $233.9 million budgetary allocation…Achievements up to February 2011 include…recruitment of...

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Private sector urged to fight scourge [South Africa]

Author: Nonku Khumalo, Sowetan

Launching the workplace programme...South African Breweries [part of SABMiller], South African Business Coalition on HIV and Aids and Global Fund came together and urged others in the private sector to play their part. David Evans, Global Fund manager...

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• Related companies: SABMiller South African Breweries (part of SAB Miller)

Stakeholders review workplace policy on HIV/AIDS [Nigeria]

Author: Abdullahi Yusuf, The Nation [Nigeria]

THE...impact of the various... programmes on workplace...HIV/AIDS was the subject of discussion at a public forum in Lagos recently... Dr. Olufemi Oke, the lead consultant on the [USAID/Nigeria SMARTWork Program]... said...the...program was popular...

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Reluctance to have HIV tests at work may thwart target

Author: Tamar Khan, Business Day [So Africa]

Fewer than one in five employees at Western Cape companies that provide HIV testing have taken up the offer, according to preliminary results of a South African Business Coalition Against HIV/AIDS survey...The finding raises tough questions for the...

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