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Title: | Southern African Multinational Corporations Confront the Challenges of HIV/AIDS |
Author: | Ala, Jacqui |
Year: | 2004 |
Periodical: | South African Journal of International Affairs |
Volume: | 11 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 143-153 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Southern Africa South Africa |
Subjects: | multinational enterprises AIDS international relations Economics and Trade Health and Nutrition Labor and Employment |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10220460409545473 |
Abstract: | The HIV/AIDS pandemic threatens workforces, markets and ultimately profits, prompting companies to include the HIV/AIDS issue in strategic planning. The private sector has the potential to make a tremendous contribution to the global fight against the pandemic. This paper summarizes how HIV/AIDS affects multinational companies doing business in southern African countries with high infection rates, and the measures being employed to mitigate the impact on business. It looks at the role of the Global Business Council (GBC) on HIV/AIDS, which was established in 1997. The GBC has provided guidelines, in this way addressing a weakness in the international HIV/AIDS regime, namely its lack of rules. The paper also examines the question of whether business should provide their employees with anti-retroviral drugs. Finally, it notes that, since workplace programmes only assist the employed, the overall response to the HIV/AIDS threat remains primarily the responsibility of the State. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |