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Article

17 Nov 2003

Author:
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)

press release: Waking Up to Risk: Corporate Responses to HIV/AIDS in the Workplace

Among other findings, [the UNRISD report] reports that only 21% of the 100 largest corporations confirmed to the UN that they have workplace policies and programmes on HIV/AIDS...Most companies do not consider how their normal operations and strategies affect poverty...Hence the main analytical finding from this research is that the corporate sector is just beginning to wake up to the risks posed to business operations by HIV/AIDS and has still to awaken to its wider responsibilities, which arise from its influence over the conditions that encourage HIV/AIDS prevalence and undermine possibilities for mitigating its effects.