Zimbabwe's seven-year economic crisis has forced private companies to make some difficult decisions about workplace programmes for HIV-positive staff. How do you provide…medication, care and support, when you're struggling to keep your business afloat?… Zimbabwe is suffering shortages of food, fuel, power, medicines and basic commodities; inflation is approaching a staggering 15,000 percent, and the country also has one of the world's highest rates of HIV infection… Nyika Mahachi, the HIV/AIDS programme advisor at the Zimbabwe AIDS Prevention Support Organisation (ZAPSO) [said]…most…"would rather have employees die [of AIDS] and then have them replaced" than meet the costs of running workplace HIV programmes…[refers to Barclays Bank]