In Aids Prevention Campaign IPS news reports appear daily in English, German, Finnish, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish. Most companies invest huge sums of money on training their staff, and will go to some lengths to protect them from being poached by rival companies, now Aids is on the scene, a bigger threat than any rival firm''.
Prevention is our only option.
We can't talk about prevention being better than cure, because there is no cure,'' said Julius Namale of the Barclays Bank of Kenya Limited. In Zimbabwe one out of four adults dies of AIDS while 43 percent of pregnant women in Botswana are HIV positive. The meeting heard that 75 percent of all adult deaths in Africa are as a result of Aids, a vast majority in their productive ages of between 20 and 50 who would be developing their skills and contributing to the growth of their economies. Aids costs to households, workers, managers, companies, sectors and national economies is unimaginably huge in terms of human resource losses and costs,'' said Lamptey. According to Hunter, a new study in Zimbabwe factories where the rate of new infections were cut by over one third at the cost of only 6 US Dollars, per employee per year, is proof that prevention education in the workplace actually works.