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| Title: | Fronts or Front-Lines? HIV/AIDS and Big Business in South Africa |
| Authors: | Dickinson, David Innes, Duncan |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Periodical: | Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa |
| Issue: | 55 |
| Pages: | 28-54 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | large enterprises AIDS Development and Technology Economics and Trade Health and Nutrition |
| External link: | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/181230 |
| Abstract: | Using data from a questionnaire survey of South Africa's 50 largest companies conducted for UNAIDS between December 2002 and February 2003, the authors examine the response of big business to HIV/AIDS. They focus on three dimensions: perceptions of the threat of HIV/AIDS and the companies' motivations for taking action, the extent to which internal company policies reflect accepted 'best practice', and whether company responses demonstrate a 'social' or 'isolationist' approach to the epidemic. The results of the survey suggest that South African businesses are pursuing a range of overlapping and sometimes incompatible strategies, from attempts to 'ring fence' the company from the larger epidemic, to 'social' responses that extend beyond the confines of the company itself. At the same time there remain significant gaps between official policy and the actual response that is required within companies. This raises the question as to whether the HIV/AIDS policies of large companies in South Africa form the frontline of action against the epidemic or fronts behind which inadequate action is hidden from view. Bibliogr., notes. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
