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Anglogold

AngloGold is a large international gold mining company and has 20 operations in Africa, North and South America and Australia.

Goal

Using a direct service model to provide workplace prevention, care, support and treatment (October 2003)

Key questions

How can AngloGold help ensure comprehensive treatment for employees after they elect to take ill-health retirement?
How can AngloGold continue to contribute to local communities to ensure that improvements to medical infrastructure are sustainable?
How can smaller employers provide a subset of this comprehensive programme at an affordable cost?

Programme description

AngloGold uses a direct service model to provide workplace prevention, Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT), care, support and treatment programmes.

AngloGold revised its HIV-specific policy with its five labour organisations establishing a new partnership in July 2002.

Workplace prevention programmes have been improving since 1985, focusing on awareness events, training, peer education, condom distribution and syndromic management of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs).

AngloGold uses industry partnerships to reduce the risk of HIV/AIDS transmission in neighbouring communities by targeting commercial sex workers to receive STI treatment, condoms, and peer education.

A VCT programme is available free of charge to all employees and partners. AngloGold is also working with local health departments to make these VCT facilities available to communities.

AngloGold extended its comprehensive wellness management programme for HIV infected individuals to include Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Treatment (HAART) for employees in November 2002.

AngloGold provides home-based care for approximately 45% of its ill-health retirees.

To view the pdf document, click here .
Click here to view Anglogold’s HIV/AIDS policy.

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Small businesses

Is it reasonable to expect small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in South Africa to offer HIV/AIDS services to their employees?

As evidence has accumulated of the negative impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the South African economy, some sectors of society have taken action, while others have not. In the private sector, many large businesses, having recognised the imminent costs of the epidemic and the potential benefits of proactive intervention, are now offering HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment services to employees. The vast majority of small and medium sized businesses, however, are not .. >.