Employers' Handbook on HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Action

This monograph serves as a handbook to guide employers’ organizations and their members in creating programs to deal with the impact of HIV on their companies. The monograph gives basic facts about HIV transmission, prevention, and progress from HIV to AIDS, and regional trends on HIV/AIDS. It discusses whether employers and their organizations should be involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS by examining the effect of HIV/AIDS on the business environment and on individual companies. The monograph provides guidelines for employers’ organizations and companies on responding to HIV/AIDS in the workplaceand gives the outline of workplace policy, including provision of HIV-prevention education as well as community involvement. The monograph also gives examples of initiatives taken by employers’ organizations and individual companies.