Business responses to HIV / AIDS in the African formal sector workplace:

Abstract

As the rising human cost of AIDS becomes increasingly visible in African countries, policy makers are giving more attention to the impact of the epidemic on socioeconomic development. Kenya's 1994-1996 National Development Plan begins to strategically address the developmental impacts of HIV / AIDS. The Plan calls upon the formal commercial/ private sector (henceforth the "business sector") to play a greater role in HIV / AIDS prevention by supporting workplace prevention efforts and establishing appropriate policies for the workplace. With increasing demands on scarce public resources and a recognition that the workplace provides a good environment for HIV / AIDS