Mobile clinics offer HIV testing to truckers

When a long distance truck driver stops at the Crosscape Express truck depot in Pinetown, Kwa-Zulu Natal, this week, he will have the option of getting tested for HIV/AIDS - and could even receive counselling.

Big brother approach to HIV/AIDS in business

Big South African businesses with successful workplace HIV/AIDS testing and treatment facilities have teamed up with the World Economic Forum (WEF) in an attempt to offer similar services to smaller firms.

Small businesses can help fight HIV/AIDS

The issue of HIV/AIDS no longer surprises us. We've grown too accustomed to reading, talking and hearing about HIV/AIDS. But we are still unsure on how to deal with the epidemic as it reaches into all aspects of our work life - the failing health of colleagues and their families; increasing absenteeism; and the impact on the organisation's performance and bottom line.

Forging partnerships for healthy workers

Businesses are formally engaging with the government to intensify programmes aimed at mitigating the effects of HIV/AIDS and TB - two co-epidemics that gravely affect economic performance and impact on thousands of workers and their families.

Private sector makes HIV/AIDS its business

After years of failing to mount an adequate response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, African businesses are finally getting their house in order. The Pan African Business Coalition (PABC) was launched on Monday during the 14th International Conference on HIV/AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) in Abuja, Nigeria, and is expected to mobilise the private sector to adopt more effective HIV/AIDS programmes.

African businesses more concerned about HIV/AIDS threat

Sub-Saharan African business leaders are far more concerned about the threat of HIV/AIDS to their businesses than their counterparts in other parts of the world.

Bono bets on Red to battle HIV/AIDS

The rock star Bono has launched a new global brand, Product Red, with a share of profits to go to the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa.

Small firms own up to HIV/AIDS impact

Grant Thornton International (GTI), a consultancy firm, has found that small and mid-sized South African companies are viewing HIV/AIDS more seriously than a year ago.

Union provides HIV/AIDS drugs

The slow rollout of antiretrovirals in KwaZulu-Natal has prompted the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (SACTWU) to provide antiretroviral treatment for its HIV-positive members.

May Day HIV/AIDS focus

South African trade unions used May Day celebrations on Monday to call for greater action against HIV/AIDS.