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Businesses to be forced into AIDS action

    JOHANNESBURG

    South Africa's largest mining company, Anglo American, has warned that new measures to compel AIDS action by all businesses could be introduced, a local newspaper, Business Day, reported.

    This was due to an apparent lack of interest by local companies in tackling HIV/AIDS, delegates heard on Tuesday at the launch of the South African Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS toolkit.

    The toolkit, being launched in stages countrywide, was developed to assist local employers to implement HIV/AIDS programmes in their companies.

    One of the new measures could be a requirement that all businesses provide proof of their AIDS programmes before being granted contracts.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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