1. OVERVIEW OF AIDS INITIATIVES IN CORPORATE SOUTH AFRICA
Presented by: Marlene Bossett
For: AHI
25 February 2003

2. CONTENTS Context S.A. Corporate Best Practice Corporate challenges:
Corporate Social Involvement
Corporate Research
Implementation
Corporate Resources: SABCOHA
Corporate challenges:
Internal
External
Conclusion

3. CONTEXT Imperatives: Moral Political Economic Social Historical Legal
Business sustainability

4. S.A. CORPORATE BEST PRACTICE: CSI
Hospices
Home-based care
Primary Health Care
Aids Education
Research
Aids “events”

5. BEST PRACTICE, cont.: CORPORATE RESEARCH
Epidemiology
Prevalence
Impact analyses
Policy development
Prevention
Care and intervention
Medical research

6. BEST PRACTICE, cont.: IMPLEMENTATION
Aids strategies
Aids policies
Prevention, e.g.,
Education, awareness, condom dispensing, STD treatment
Treatment, e.g.,
VCT, positive living, counselling, provision of ART’s
Collaborative partnerships

7. BEST PRACTICE, cont.: CORPORATE RESOURCES
The South African Business Coalition on HIV and Aids (SABCOHA):
Primary goal: to support and encourage SSME’s to develop and implement workplace Aids policies
Resource Centre
Website
Employer organisations:
Websites
Individual business websites

8. CORPORATE CHALLENGES: INTERNAL
Failure to recognise business imperatives
500 companies surveyed:
75 %: no idea of AIDS prevalence
60%: no strategy
46%: no Aids policy
85%: no VCT
Lack of communication and overt leadership from the top
Resistance from employees
Internal focus: policy development

9. CORPORATE CHALLENGES: EXTERNAL
Perceived government:
Ambiguous external messages
Delay in access to ART’s
Insufficient mother to child programmes
Press “wars”
Internal disagreement

10. CONCLUSION
Innovative strategies and initiatives, together with strong leadership from government, business, labour and civil society, are needed to effectively deal with the devastating effects of the Aids epidemic.