About us
The Asian Business Coalition on AIDS (ABC on AIDS) is a region-wide partnership between companies that aim to prevent and control HIV/AIDS in the workplace and not-for-profit organizations that provide technical services on HIV/AIDS, such as training. Our mission is to facilitate business responses to HIV/AIDS in Asia by pursuing two strategies:
1. Regional advocacy to companies to manage HIV/AIDS in the workplace.
2. Strengthening of local service providers’ capacities to assist companies with the implementation of HIV/AIDS workplace activities.
This website aims to inform companies about how to effectively manage HIV/AIDS in their workplace. In our network we work together with service providers in 11 countries in Asia that are ready to assist businesses with fighting HIV/AIDS.
The role that business can play
The utilization of corporate resources, such as management and marketing know-how, creativity, communication and distribution networks and funds - is of crucial importance to create effective prevention and intervention strategies.
Businesses can minimize the socio-economic depletion of resources as a result of the AIDS epidemic by educating workforces, implementing non-discriminatory policies and partnering with the public sector to provide medical care to HIV-positive employees. By doing so, businesses are able to promote the important message that people living with HIV/AIDS can have positive and productive lives.
More about the role of business in HIV/AIDS prevention: Link to managing HIV/AIDS
Myanmar Business Coalition on AIDS reactivated
"A senior official from the United Nations' AIDS Program in Yangon has welcomed the reactivation of a business group on AIDS which was set up informally two years ago." Read more... Link Myanmar Business Coalition on AIDS
New on this site
NEW: management manual on HIV/AIDS
Download from our document library the management manual developed by the Business Coalition on AIDS in Singapore. This manual gives a comprehensive overview of all topics related to HIV/AIDS intervention in the workplace. Link to document library
NEW: case studies: Nike, Tata Tea, AIA etc.
Visit our section on case studies where you can download cases on workplace HIV/AIDS prevention and intervention programs. Link to case studies
NEW: Chinese translated advocacy materials
Link Chinese translation 'Business Taking Action'
Chinese translation of the ABC on AIDS advocacy document "Business Taking Action to Manage HIV/AIDS". This 24-pages document contains a selection of business practices responding to HIV/AIDS in- and outside the Asian workplace.
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