Firms will have to report on HIV/AIDS risks

In the light of frightening new evidence that HIV/AIDS deaths and sickness are beginning to bite deep into the commercial heart of the country, listed companies in South Africa will from next year be required to focus on the disclosure of strategies and policies to manage the potential impact of HIV/AIDS on their activities.

HIV/AIDS funding fails to make the leap

Hailed as a "quantum leap" in the fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has become a focal point for funding efforts to bring the epidemic to heel.

SA Port Operations funds orphans of AIDS

South African Port Operations (SAPO) advanced its "HIV/AIDS Lifestyle Management" policy recently with the donation of a large sum of money and clothing to the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Social Welfare. SAPO announced its Lifestyle Management Programme, aimed at reaching out to the community, earlier in 2002.

Durban conference on demographic and socio-economic impact of AIDS

Notice of a Scientific Meeting to be held from 26th to 28th March 2003 in Durban, South Africa, entitled: "Empirical Evidence for the Demographic and Socio-Economic Impact of AIDS".

Durban man's legacy of love

Victor Daitz was a quiet Durban businessman who chose a life out of the limelight and was not one to boast about his achievements or his wealth. This could have been different, because the man who saw out the last of his 86 years in a flat in Cato Road, Durban, was worth more than R100 million. Daitz died in 1999, and this week hundreds of children in Ndwedwe, a rural area about 60k north of Durban, joined the many underprivileged who have celebrated his legacy.

Transnet launches HIV/AIDS project

A sum of R500-million has been set aside by Transnet for a lifestyle management programme for employees with HIV/AIDS, and Spoornet, a division of Transnet, has been selected as a pilot site for the implementation.

Counting the tea leaves: Business gets real about the cost of AIDS

Nine kilograms. That was the daily difference in tea leaves picked by a Kenyan tea plucker with HIV/AIDS in the last three months of his or her life and a healthy worker.

Legal Brief: testing employees for HIV/AIDS

The advent of HIV/AIDS has brought with it the problem of unfair discrimination due to the HIV/AIDS status of people, including that of employees, says Sifiso Msomi, an attorney at Durban law firm Garlicke & Bousfield.

The mining industry cares about workers infected with HIV

The Chief Executive of the Chamber of Mines of South Africa Mr Mzolisi Diliza today announced that the Chamber of Mines is taking a simple message to the HIV/AIDS Summit to be held on 30 April 2003: Lets stop €˜fighting€™ each other about HIV/AIDS €“ Let us turn the war towards the epidemic.

First National Bank donates R80 000 to beadwork project

Children watch fascinated as their mothers concentrate on the intricate beading that produces HIV/AIDS ribbons, company logos and even jewellery.