AIDS and Business

ISBN-13: 9780415454636 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 332 str.

Saskia Faulk;Jean-Claude Usunier

Opis

The spread of HIV/AIDS affects businesses in all sectors, all industries and all countries. For companies and organizations everywhere, the question is no longer whether to take action on HIV/AIDS but which actions to take. Complete with an impressive collection of complex background and research on HIV/AIDS and a foreword by Dr. Peter Piot, former Executive Director of UNAIDS, this volume collects case studies of managers worldwide faced with challenging HIV/AIDS-related management decisions. AIDS and Business will fascinate the general reader seeking an understanding of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and to the advanced reader looking to develop a more sophisticated understanding of the impact of the disease. The case studies in this volume, set in nine countries, detail the issues facing businesses operating in areas where HIV/AIDS prevalence is growing. The topics discussed include understanding the role of social and cultural factors in the spread of HIV, the different organizations and institutions fighting the epidemic, designing an HIV communications campaign, HIV testing, ethical issues, marketing ethics and CSR, condoms marketing, and designing an HIV workplace program. Useful as a resource on HIV/AIDS and business, a set of case studies, or a training tool, this book contains a unique range of tools for learning to understand the epidemic, designed from a grounded and practical business perspective.

The spread of HIV/AIDS affects businesses in all sectors, all industries and all countries. A range of workplace, community, advocacy, and awareness roles are available to be played by businesses in slowing the epidemic. For many companies and organizations the question is no longer whether to take action on HIV/AIDS, but which actions to take. This book demonstrates managerial decisions in their broader context (human, cultural, social, political and institutional), educating business people about the pandemic and showing the likely consequences, costs and benefits of different actions.

This collection of international case studies detailing why and how businesses take action on HIV/AIDS, provides a wealth of background information on the epidemic.

Spis treści

Preface. Foreword by Dr. Peter Piot, Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, founding Executive Director of UNAIDS, and former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations. Acknowledgments. List of Tables. List of Figures. Case Study One: A Medical Anthropologist in Morocco: Social and Cultural Factors and HIV/AIDS. Case Study Two: Addressing a Global Cause in Local Contexts: Country Case Study of HIV/AIDS in Brazil. Case Study Three: Mexicom Designs a National Public Health HIV/AIDS Campaign. Case Study Four: Ross IVD: Global Marketing Issues for HIV Testing Products and Services. Case Study Five: Protectom: Selling Condoms, a Complex Business. Case Study Six: Global Pricing and Ethics of Marketing HIV/AIDS Drugs. Case Study Seven: Realsource India: HIV/AIDS in the Back Office to the World. Case Study Eight: Winthai: Initiating HIV/AIDS Company Action in a Reborn Epidemic. Case Study Nine: Woolworths South Africa. Case Study Ten: Designing a Company HIV/AIDS Program. Glossary. Notes. Index.