A win-win scenario? Employers' responses to HIV in Tanzania: A qualitative study.

ABSTRACT: Workplaces have been increasingly promoted as key sites for HIV interventions, with cost-benefit analyses employed to demonstrate the financial benefits to employers for implementing workplace HIV programmes. In these analyses, the potential costs of having HIV positive employees are weighed against the costs of the workplace programmes. Despite evidence that shows some firms have saved significant sums of money through these interventions, the general response from the private sector has been limited, with most positive case studies originating from high prevalence settings. This article reports findings from qualitative fieldwork conducted in Tanzania with private and public sector employers that aimed to understand how HIV was addressed in their organisations. Our findings suggest that

SUBMITTER: Deane K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10021273 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature