Presentations

Brad Mears at a BMR presentation SABCOHA hosts numerous workshops, breakfasts and seminars where a number of useful presentations are offered to visitors, from information on peer educators to guidelines on business coalitions. These are all available for viewing in this section.

These include the SABOCHA and JBIC workplace capacity programmes, the Arumm Institute presentation on re-emphasizing HIV prevention in the workplace , the Reproductive Health and HIV Research Unit on demystifying traditional health practices in the corporate world, the satellite session at the SA Aids Conference 2007, the Markinor/Bureau of Market Research (BMR), and peer educators forums, among others.

JBIC and SABCOHA implement workplace capacity programmes

9 May 2008

Working with the Japan Bank for International Co-operation (JBIC), SABCOHA conducted a programme in several leading companies operating in South Africa. The programme focused on HIV/AIDS capacity building to tackle falling productivity and rising costs resulting from absenteeism and deaths.

A number of interventions were set up through the programme, ranging from developing a database of HIV/AIDS service providers to training peer educators and conducting management training.

Programme findings were presented at a breakfast on 9 May 2008 at the Hyatt Regency in Johannesburg. Six automotive manufacturers and one mining company, Hernic Ferrochrome, participated.

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Re-emphasizing HIV prevention in the workplace

7 August

The shift in focus towards treatment for HIV positive employees should not overtake the importance of HIV prevention in workforces. Businesses need to think innovatively and target HIV prevention intervention programmes more effectively. This is the key message to emerge from a presentation at a SABCOHA breakfast in Illovo, Johannesburg, on August 7 by Debbie Muirhead and Andrew Van Zyl, health economists with the Aurum Institute of Health Research.

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Regional Workshop on HIV in the Road Transport Sector in Southern Africa

28 September 2007

The International Organisation for Migration, in conjunction with the World Food Programme, the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), the North Star Foundation, and the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS, held a Regional Workshop on HIV in the Road Transport Sector for Southern Africa from 26 to 28 September 2007 at Piggs Peak, in Swaziland.

The workshop's specific objectives were to share lessons learned of HIV responses in the road transport sector in southern Africa; to facilitate networking and increased co-ordination among partners and stakeholders working in the road transport sector in

selected countries, and among different agencies implementing HIV initiatives in the road transport sector, to avoid duplication and to strengthen and upscale responses; and to outline a way forward for future interventions and activities.

Participants came from the SADC secretariat, SADC governments, the private sector, the donor community, international organisations, civil society, and research institutions. The wealth of this multi-national and multi-sectoral diversity encouraged extensive sharing of lessons and, based on these lessons, it facilitated agreement on the main way forward.

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Demystifying traditional health practices in the corporate world

Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria and SABCOHA

14 August 2007

The GBC and SABCOHA held a workshop on de-mystifying traditional health practises in the corporate world. The Reproductive Health and HIV Research Unit (RHRU) who have an intimate knowledge of the subject of traditional health practises, shared their knowledge with participants.

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