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A win-win scenario? Employers’ responses to HIV in Tanzania: A qualitative study
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...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10021273/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36962506 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000058 |
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author | Deane, Kevin Wamoyi, Joyce Mgunga, Samwel Changalucha, John |
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description | 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 HIV is not generally a serious issue, and hence HIV interventions are primarily ad-hoc with few formal HIV workplace programmes. We also found that in cases where compulsory testing programmes were implemented, employees did not turn up for testing and thus lost access to employment. Our findings suggest that relying on workplace programmes in lower prevalence settings is no substitute for investment in public health systems. Employer interventions should emphasise education and awareness, condom distribution and the promotion and provision of self-testing kits. |
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spelling | pubmed-100212732023-03-17 A win-win scenario? Employers’ responses to HIV in Tanzania: A qualitative study Deane, Kevin Wamoyi, Joyce Mgunga, Samwel Changalucha, John PLOS Glob Public Health Research Article 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 HIV is not generally a serious issue, and hence HIV interventions are primarily ad-hoc with few formal HIV workplace programmes. We also found that in cases where compulsory testing programmes were implemented, employees did not turn up for testing and thus lost access to employment. Our findings suggest that relying on workplace programmes in lower prevalence settings is no substitute for investment in public health systems. Employer interventions should emphasise education and awareness, condom distribution and the promotion and provision of self-testing kits. Public Library of Science 2022-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC10021273/ /pubmed/36962506 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000058 Text en © 2022 Deane et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Deane, Kevin Wamoyi, Joyce Mgunga, Samwel Changalucha, John A win-win scenario? Employers’ responses to HIV in Tanzania: A qualitative study |
title | A win-win scenario? Employers’ responses to HIV in Tanzania: A qualitative study |
title_full | A win-win scenario? Employers’ responses to HIV in Tanzania: A qualitative study |
title_fullStr | A win-win scenario? Employers’ responses to HIV in Tanzania: A qualitative study |
title_full_unstemmed | A win-win scenario? Employers’ responses to HIV in Tanzania: A qualitative study |
title_short | A win-win scenario? Employers’ responses to HIV in Tanzania: A qualitative study |
title_sort | win-win scenario? employers’ responses to hiv in tanzania: a qualitative study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10021273/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36962506 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000058 |
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