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Global Campaign for
Microbicides
Business and HIV/AIDS, TB &
Malaria :
June 19-20, 2008
Neeraj Mistry MD, MPH
Overview
Health and Safety moment
Business and AIDS
GBC
Examples of Corporate Engagement
Workplace programs
Health & Safety Moment
Member Companies
The Business Case
Corporate
Social
Responsibility
Workforce &
Productivity
Corporate
HIV/AIDS, TB & Malaria
initiatives
Consumer &
Political
Expectations
Shrinking,
Riskier Markets
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Business is motivated by
self-interest, social conscience
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Health of workers and customers
Stability of countries and markets
Brand value
Ability to attract and retain talent
Credibility (“license to operate”)
– With the public sector
– With society
The Impact on Business:
Declining Productivity and Profits
•Increased cost for health care, burials, training and
recruitment of replacement employees
•Decreased productivity and revenues as a result of
absenteeism due to illness or attendance at funerals
•Employees in their most industrious years are affected most
•As AIDS prevalence rises, GDP falls.
•In Sub-Saharan Africa:
•Prevalence of 8% results in GDP decrease of 1%
•Prevalence of 10%, results in GDP decrease of over 30%
•1/3 of the regions countries have HIV prevalence of 8%
•HIV/AIDS is projected to reduce the size of the labor force
in 32 African countries by 5–35% by 2020
•HIV/AIDS threatens GDP growth in Brazil, China, India, and
Russia.
•China’s GDP growth may decrease by 1% over 10 years
•Russia’s GDP growth may decrease by 4% by 2010 and 10%
by 2020
Reduction in growth rate GDP
per capita (%, per year)
AIDS Decimates Economies
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HIV Prevalence Rate (%)
Growth Impact of HIV (1990-97) for 80 developing countries
Source: R. Bonnel (2000) Economic Analysis of HIV/AIDS, ADF2000 Background paper, World Bank.
Slide adapted from UNAIDS: “Socio-Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS in Africa,” presented by Anita Alban
and Lorna Guiness, ADF 2000.
Companies Speak
GBC Member Companies
Business know-how, access
makes critical difference
• Business skills improve effectiveness of government,
NGO, and local initiatives
• Business has direct access to millions
• Business provides outreach mechanisms
– Employees
– Customers
– Suppliers
– Distribution chains
• Business relationships help clear hurdles
• Business is willing to invest
• Shell - Nigeria
GBC
• 220 companies working to maximize their impact in the fight
against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria
• GBC’s four main goals facilitate its mission to harness the power
of the global business community to end the HIV/AIDS,
tuberculosis, and malaria epidemics:
• Increase the number and diversity of companies
committed to fighting global epidemics
• Increase business action against HIV/AIDS, TB, and
malaria, and improve the quality and reach of company
and community programs
• Enhance and facilitate the use of companies' core
competencies and products in the fight against HIV/AIDS,
TB, and malaria
• Use business power to advocate for HIV/AIDS, TB, and
malaria issues and lead the epidemic’s response
Business in Action
• Workplace
• Community
• Core Competency
• Co-Investment
• Advocacy & Leadership
• Innovation
…in the Workplace
• In 2003, VWSA worked with GTZ to
develop an integrated HIV/AIDS
workplace program
• The 2 main components are prevention
of HIV and treatment with ARVs
• The program has been extended to the
families of employees
• Two years into the program, VWSA has
launched a program performance
evaluation in order to assess impact
…in the Community
• Developed local labs for HIV monitoring and research
• Created a training curriculum and
exchange program for African nurses and doctors
• Hosts community programs to address AIDS orphans, home
care, and counseling
•Joined with 4 other pharmaceutical companies and
UNAIDS on a treatment access initiative
…with its Core Competency
All the profits from
the Viva Glam
Line goes to AIDS
research - over
$50 million to date
…Co-Investment
• Co-Investment / Private-Public Partnerships
Development
Goals
PPP
Private Sector
Goals
- Brings together various sectors with
unique and complementary resources
- Four pilot projects:
-Nigeria (2)
-Kenya
-South Africa
- $1.4 million investment by PEPFAR
- “Making Co-Investment a Reality”
produced with GTZ
…through Advocacy &Leadership
Through Virgin Unite, Richard Branson has used his
celebrity status to inspire action by Virgin employees,
consumers, and other business leaders.
.…through Innovation
Getty Images uses the undeniable power of imagery to
put a human face on HIV/AIDS. It provides its
photographs - taken in the hardest-hit regions of the
world - to organizations and companies.
The GBC Response
What we do & how we do it:
Global Trends in
Business Action
• Workplace-Community Continuum
• Collective actions – PPPs, B2B (GBC Impact Initiatives)
• Integrated responses – AIDS, TB, Malaria
• Competition/Collaboration with other global issues – climate,
sustainable development, health systems strengthening…
• Increasing Donor Community interest
• Gender Training and Programs
• Cause-related Marketing – (Product)RED
• Cash Contributions – Global Fund Corporate Champions
Thank You!
Questions and
Discussion
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