With over 1 500 new HIV infections in South
Africa
every day - and over 50% of these in the
20-30 year age group - the corporate impact
of HIV/AIDS will be considerable.
No organisation will be immune.
Every aspect of a company's operations
will be affected by HIV/AIDS: Productivity,
costs and markets, ultimately impacting on
competitiveness and sustainability.
By proactively assessing the likely impact
of HIV/AIDS on business activities, companies
can develop and implement HIV/AIDS strategies
in the workplace that may make it possible to
reduce the prevalence of HIV among employees,
as well as manage the impact of HIV positive
employees on their bottom line. Not doing this
may well see companies facing seriously impaired
productivity and profitability a few years down
the line.
All modules leverage the
distribution capability of the online environment,
and combine this with informative e-mail programmes,
extensive web-based resources, powerful print
modules and interactive functionality. This
combination of communication media allows the
module to touch the lives of every employee
– on- or off-line, literate or semi-literate,
skilled or unskilled.
All modules are client-branded,
offering clients the opportunity to deliver
the applications with their own corporate identity
(private labelling).
All modules provide a turnkey
solution - they are hosted and maintained off-site,
requiring minimal systems integration or IT
configuration on the client side allowing companies
to deploy immediate, sustainable, company-wide
interventions.
Implementing these
modules will effectively enable an organisation
to:
- Plan
and implement an HIV/AIDS management strategy
- Develop
HR resources relating to policy, procedure,
legislation and occupational health
- Implementing
training and education at various education
and training levels amoung employees, management
and HIV/ADIS peer educators
- Remain
up to date on the multi-faceted issues relating
to HIV/AIDS in SOuth Africa and the world
- Offers
employees access to up to date, multilingual,
and literacy specific consumer information
relating to HIV/AIDS
- Quantify
the financial and human impact of HIV/AIDS
in the organisation
All of the above are important
steps in developing and strengthening the HIV/AIDS
strategic capabilities, knowledge and capacity
within an organisation.
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