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Business can do better on AIDS - expert

    JOHANNESBURG

    Namibian businesses have the power to address HIV/AIDS in the workplace, according to Brian Brink, vice-president of the international mining giant, Anglo American.

    Brink, who is also a board member of the Private Sector Delegation to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, noted that the excuse of cost-to-company was wearing thin, as donor funds for workplace interventions were now more easily available.

    The local Namibian newspaper quoted him as saying, "The target for private-sector businesses should be that 100 percent of their workforce know their HIV status. There is no excuse for us to be sitting with this burden of disease. Namibia has a manageable population of only 1.8 million and can stop AIDS."

    Namibia has an adult AIDS prevalence rate of 21.3 percent.

    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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