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Waking up to risk - corporate responses to HIV/aids in workplace
Bendell, Jem
Bendell, Jem
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"This paper looks at the response of large corporations to one of the most pressing developmental challenges facing countries in the global South today HIV/AIDS. The paper presents results and analysis from the first global survey of transnational corporations (TNCs) responses to the pandemic, as well as three surveys of large corporations in Brazil, the Philippines and South Africa, and case studies of selected corporations. The research was conducted by the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) in partnership with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), in response to the request of the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) that data on the response of different sectors of society be generated and analysed. The main analytical finding from this research is that the corporate sector is just beginning to wake up to the risks posed to business operations by HIV/AIDS and has still to awaken to its wider responsibilities, which arise from its influence over the conditions that encourage HIV/AIDS prevalence and undermine possibilities for mitigating its effects. Dialogue and action on the interface between business and HIV/AIDS has often focused on the business response to HIV/AIDS, rather than on the HIV/AIDS response to business. However, the United Nations Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS recognized that all actors must consider the wider social and economic conditions influencing HIV/AIDS prevalence and impact. Therefore the international policy community on HIV/AIDS must act to ensure more companies are not only waking up to risk but also awakening to responsibility for socioeconomic conditions that influence people at risk from, or living with, the virus."(pg v)
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2003-10
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