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Article

7 Aug 2002

Author:
Henri E. Cauvin, New York Times

Mining Company [Anglo American] to Offer H.I.V. Drugs to Employees [Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe]

After more than a year of mixed signals, the mining company Anglo American P.L.C., which is confronted with a crushing AIDS burden in Africa, said today that it would begin supplying life-prolonging drugs to all its employees who are H.I.V. positive...The rates of H.I.V. infection among adults in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe - countries where Anglo operates - are among the highest in the world.