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Smaller businesses ignoring HIV/AIDS - survey
28 April 2005. IRIN PlusNews. Republished courtesy of IRIN PlusNews.
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Most mid-sized South African companies are turning a blind eye to HIV/AIDS, despite forecasts that the epidemic is set to ravage the country's workforce, a new report by a leading global accounting and financial services firm has said.
Grant Thornton found in its '2005 Business Owners Survey' that only 26 percent of medium-sized companies viewed the disease as a serious constraint to business growth over the next five years.
"Given the acknowledged impact that HIV/AIDS is having ... it is disappointing that over the last three years, the survey has recorded very little change in the attitude of business owners in providing direct assistance to their employees," Lee-Anne Bac, head of Strategic Solutions at Grant Thornton, told Reuters.
The survey was conducted among 300 medium-sized local businesses, each employing between 50 and 250 people.
This item is delivered to the English Service of the United Nations' Humanitarian Information Unit but, may not necessarily reflect the views of the UN |
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