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Annexure C: Code of Good Practice on Key Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Employment within the Textile Manufacturing

13. Management of HIV in the Workplace

 

13.1. The effective management of HIV/AIDS in the workplace requires an integrated strategy that includes, amongst others, the following elements:
13.1.1. An understanding and assessment of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the workplace; and
13.1.2. Long and short term measures to deal with and reduce this impact, including:
(i) An HIV/AIDS Policy for the workplace
(ii ) HIV/AIDS Programmes, which would incorporate:
(a) Ongoing sustained prevention of the spread of HIV among employees and their communities;
(b) Management of employees with HIV so that they are able to work productively for as long as possible; and
(c) Strategies to deal with the direct and indirect costs of HIV/AIDS in the workplace.