ANNUAL CALENDAR
Click here to download the current SABCOHA calendar for 2008: sabcoha_events_calendar_20082
Forthcoming SABCOHA events
Breakfast: Community involvement
9 September 2008
Denise Hunt from the AIDS Consortium will familiarize us with the needs of the Community and how business can support it more actively within government's policy framework. Dr Tracey Peterson from De Beers and Jenni Gillies from SAB Ltd. will present case studies. As usual we value your input and participation.
Date: Tuesday, 9th September 2008
Time: 08:30 for 09:00
Venue: Hyatt Regency, Koi Room, Lobby Level, 191 Oxford Road, Rosebank, Johannesburg
Cost: SABCOHA members free/ R150 for non-members
RSVP: Anita Volker at
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by Monday, 1st September 2008.
Note: Space is limited and reservations will be on a first come first serve basis.
Private Sector Conference (5th and 6th November 2008)
In order to fast track preparations we would like to invite you to provide input, suggestions and constructive recommendations as to what to include as topics and/or discussion items under the following subject areas:
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Awareness, Prevention & Behaviour Change
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Treatment & Care
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Stigma, Legal and Human Rights
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Monitoring & Evaluation
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Pioneering Projects & Partnerships
The Conference Programme Structure is envisaged to consist of 4 plenary sessions, 16 parallel sessions and 4 skills building sessions. Your suggestions as to speakers and participants are also welcome. Kindly let us have your response by 8th August 2008. Email Anita Volker [
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Past Events
Breakfast: Children are Everyone’s Business (July 2008)
We are often encouraged to leave work at the workplace and home outside of the workplace, however, HIV/AIDS forces us all to act across such lines. Children constitute 40% of all people in South Africa, representing the largest single grouping in the country. As employers and employees, our children’s lives affect why we work, how we perform in the workplace, what we do with our income and benefits, and what support is required for us to function effectively. Business influences societal aspirations through advertising and marketing. Children’s lives and possibilities are shaped by parents and caregivers, schools and communities, by what business does or does not do and how it operates.
Challenge to business to get involved in fight for children's rights
Second Wits HIV/AIDS in the Workplace Research Symposium (May 2008)
The Wits Business School hosted the 2nd Wits HIV/AIDS in the Workplace Research Symposium on the 29th and 30th of May 2008. With 5.5 million people living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa alone, the continued challenges that HIV/AIDS presents to African economies and households, together with the accompanying advances made in workplace responses, created an uncontested rationale for a second Symposium. Just as the first 2004 Symposium emphasized research, the 2008 event focused on the presentation of rigorous, applied social research. This was a deliberate contrast to the commercial events attached to HIV/AIDS in the workplace that are commonly organised by the South African private sector. The content of the Symposium was underpinned by over 25 original research papers authored by a cadre of emerging young researchers, as well as established professionals and academics.
Click here to read more: hiv_symposium_overview_08
Click here to access the documents on the WBS website:
SABCOHA Situational Analysis workshop for members and governors (23 May 2008)
In response to the HIV/AIDS and STI National Strategic Plan 2007 - 2011 (NSP) and the restructuring of the South African National Aids Council (SANAC), a Situational Report of the private sector's response to HIV and AIDS in South Africa was commissioned. The report explores the contribution of the private sector and sectoral level responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa.
In preparation for the next SANAC Plenary Session, scheduled for 27 May 2008, governors and members of SABCOHA assisted with the evaluation of the Situational Analysis that was conducted and to review critically the document before it is published. The report is the first step in the development of a private sector response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa and considers a broad range of factors, including:
- The broader context within which a private sector response to HIV/AIDS is taking place;
- An assessment of what contributions the private sector is making in the response to HIV/AIDS;
- It links the private sector responses to the four main pillars of the National Strategic Plan; and
- It provides an assessment of the impediments preventing the private sector from responding more comprehensively to HIV/AIDS.JBIC/SABCOHA Breakfast: HIV/Aids Capacity Building Programmme
Risk Management Workshop for Small Businesses (22-23 May 2008)
BizAIDS in partnership with Women for Housing held a workshop on Risk Management for Small Businesses. The workship focussed on basic business skills and the risks associated with the continuity of the business.
Pan African Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (PABC) Conference (20-22 May)
Delegates from across Africa formally approved the registration of the Pan African Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (PABC), and also appointed the first interim board of directors at a conference held in Kyalami, Johannesburg.
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The Nelson Mandela Metro Business Coalition Against HIV/AIDS Candlelight Memorial (16 May 2008)
The Nelson Mandela Metro Business Coalition Against HIV/AIDS (NMMBCAA) invited management, HIV/AIDS programme co-ordinators and peer educators of our partners in business, private, local and provincial government sectors to the AIDS Candlelight Memorial 2008, on 16 May.
The 25th anniversary International AIDS Candlelight Memorial, a programme of the Global Health Council, was designed to honour the memory of all those who have been affected by the AIDS pandemic. It was also an opportunity to educate people about HIV/AIDS, influence local and national policy makers, and create a common dialogue about prevention, care and treatment of the disease.
"Never give up, never forget" was this year's theme.
The NMMBCAA demonstrates support for those living with HIV and AIDS, acknowledges that we are all affected by the disease, and honours the memory of those lost to this disease.
The memorial was held at Missionvale Care Centre, 1 Tromp Road, Missionvale, Port Elizabeth, on 16 May 2008, from 9am to 11am. The guest speakers were Dr Alex Govender and Odwa Mtati. Sister Ethel Normoyle gave a message of hope.
Photographs can be seen on the image gallery.
SABCOHA Breakfast: “Total Control of the Epidemic” (8 April 2008)
SABCOHA held a breakfast on Community Outreach and how it can be implemented as part of a Corporate Strategy.
Click here to read the article about the presentation:
HIV: Crisis, What Crisis?” (26 March 2008)
The UCT Graduate School of Business together with the South African Business Coalition on HIV & AIDS (SABCOHA) held a seminar by Dr Francois Venter MD, Clinical Director, HIV Management Cluster, Esselen Street Clinic and Reproductive Health and HIV Research Unit and lecturer in the Dept of Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand.
Click here to read an interview with Dr Venter on the talk:
SABCOHA Breakfast: 'What difference can nutrition really make?' (20 February 2008 )
Nutrition is a controversial but often neglected part of HIV treatment strategies. André Croucamp, author of Taste for Life, claims that the role that nutrition can play in managing HIV infection is a significant and not a marginal one.
Click here to read an article on the presentation:
LAST YEAR'S EVENTS (2007)
SABCOHA Annual General Meeting (October 2007)
A new board was elected at the AGM. SABCOHA Prevention Round Table. Click here to view the minutes of the AGM: agm_mom_-_2007_
SABCOHA Prevention Round Table (October 2007)
In realising that prevention strategies in the workplace and in broader society have failed, there is a need to fundamentally change what we are doing, and in some cases reinvent strategies. In moving from simplistic understandings of human behavior, psychology and sexuality, towards an intimate and integrated insight on how these phenomena combine, prevention programs can be strengthened to achieve lasting healthy behavior.
Click here to view the article on the round table:
Tackling sexuality in the workplace
Click here to view a presentation given at the follow-up Think Tank:
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The Economics of Prevention (August 2007)
Debbie Muirhead from Aurum Institute for Health Research presented ‘The Economics of Prevention' at the SABCOHA breakfast.
Click here to view the presentation made at the breakfast:
SA AIDS 2007: SABCOHA Satellite Session Program (June 2007)
SABCOHA held a Private Sector parallel session at the SA AIDS 2007 Conference in Durban.
Click here to view the presentations:
Peer Educators meeting in Cape Town (May 2007)
Informer Newspaper and SABCOHA hosted the workplace Peer Educators Forum in Cape Town, which was sponsored by Shell SA.
Click here to read more about the event:
Launch of SABCOHA's Internet portal (May 2007)
SABCOHA unveiled its new website, which it hopes will assist businesses in dealing with HIV/Aids-related issues. The website is "interactive, informative, up-to-date," and offers information which will aid national HIV/Aids measures, he said. These included latest news and information on upcoming conferences, policy developments and research, and HIV/Aids service providers’ details.
Click here to view an article on the launch:
Peer Educators Forum meeting in East London (March 2007)
SABCOHA and Informer newspaper held a meeting with workplace Peer Educators in East London. It follows from the hugely successful launches of the Peer Educators Forums in Johannesburg, Rustenburg, Durban and Port Elizabeth. The Forum aims to recognise Peer Educators for their dedication and commitment to colleagues, allow them to share and learn from one another, and through presentations by experienced peer education trainers, also to provide useful information on the research and HIV/AIDS strategies.
Markinor/Bureau of Market Research (January 2007)
The first SABCOHA breakfast of the year kicked off with a presentation of the Markinor Survey: "Fusing HIV/AIDS risk segmentation and demographic modeling: a novel way of looking at the business impact of HIV/AIDS in South Africa." The research, conducted jointly by Markinor and the BMR (Bureau for Market Research), integrates insight and empirical evidence for the first time in the country in a study of this nature. Key findings include that: high-risk sexual behaviour is on the rise; the number of HIV-positive people is still increasing; and that HIV is encroaching on the highly skilled and more affluent among us.
For details on the event click here
 Fusing HIV/AIDS risk segmentation and demographic modeling.
2006
A number of major events were held in 2006, including the launch of the Peer Educator's Forum and feedback from the International AIDS Conference in Toronto. The country’s first-ever private sector conference hosted by SABCOHA and Business Unity South Africa brought together a wide range of experts and participants in the field of HIV/AIDS prevention from the private sector, research agencies, government, NGO world and beyond.
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