Number of employees on ART

The data below provides disclosure under the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) indicator LA8: Education, training, counselling, prevention and risk control programmes in place for staff, their families or community members regarding serious diseases.

HIV/AIDS is a health issue in South Africa, Tanzania, Ghana and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). High prevalence of HIV/AIDS contributes to absenteeism, hospital admission, ill-health retirement and death among affected employees. In 2010, anti-retroviral therapy (ART) was supplied to 2,580 employees for whom this treatment was clinically indicated. In 2009 the recorded number of ART recipients was 2,159.

HIV/AIDS programme costs in 2010 amounted to $3,992,150 of which 92% was expended in South Africa (2009: $3,294,376, 74% spent in South Africa). Programme costs in Mali amounted to $38,638, Ghana $42,111, Tanzania $144,960 and Guinea $107,120.

* Refers to the number of employees on ART in service divisions in our South Africa region

In South Africa, the uptake of voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) has been falling since 2008 and in 2010 was 74%. Over 4,000 patients were treated at wellness centres during the year.