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- Business and Social Crisis in Africa
- Business and Social Crisis in Africa
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Doing Business Like a State
- Part I Business, HIV/AIDS and the Provision of Public Health
- 2 Not Our Business
- 3 Healthy Responses
- Part II Business, Political Crisis and the Provision of Broader Social Stability
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Healthy Responses
HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Botswana
from Part I - Business, HIV/AIDS and the Provision of Public Health
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2019
- Business and Social Crisis in Africa
- Business and Social Crisis in Africa
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Doing Business Like a State
- Part I Business, HIV/AIDS and the Provision of Public Health
- 2 Not Our Business
- 3 Healthy Responses
- Part II Business, Political Crisis and the Provision of Broader Social Stability
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Southern Africa is perhaps the world’s deadliest. Again, despite highly contrasting responses by the national governments of South African and Botswana respectively, there were significant similarities in how the private sector actors in these two countries responded to that epidemic. While many (if not most) firms provided little by way of a constructive response to the epidemic, a number of high-profile firms, notably within the mining and financial subsectors, rolled out a variety of remarkably constructive responses to the epidemic, programmes that at their most comprehensive included the provision of free antiretroviral drugs to their staff, and support for broader societal initiatives to combat the epidemic.
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- Business and Social Crisis in Africa , pp. 83 - 112Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019