More than 12,000 workers in the private sector have been sensitized to HIV/AIDS as a workplace issue through the United States-funded Guyana HIV/AIDS Reduction Project (GHARP)...GHARP is currently working with 22 local private sector entities including the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) Scotia Bank and Demerara Distillers Ltd, 13 of which have already adopted workplace policies…a further eighteen businesses are expected to sign Memoranda of Understanding with the Project shortly...Meanwhile…another United States-funded project…[will] merge with GHARP...[to] expand…effort[s] to implement workplace policies and programmes...