Consolidated Guidelines

2.8.1 Adapt and implement good practices in occupational health and the management of HIV and TB in the workplace from all sectors.

In 1999, Michael K conducted a survey of 14 large companies in South Africa in an effort to document the best practices of managing HIV in the workplace. The results indicated that companies conceptualize HIV as either a health or poverty issue and that the effects of AIDS on the workplace environment takes second priority to economic downturns, labour action or inflation. However, a study by Campbell et al.