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Past Business Surveys & Reports
- Business & HIV/AIDS: A Healthier Partnership?
- Business and Malaria: A Neglected Threat?
Business & HIV/AIDS: A Healthier Partnership?
 Business & HIV/AIDS: A Healthier Partnership?is a global review of business perceptions and response to the epidemic. It covers the opinions of 10,993 business executives in 117 countries during the first five months of 2005. This report provides business leaders, NGOs and policy makers with a tool to benchmark country-level business leader opinions as well as data-driven recommendations to guide future action.
 Full Report (PDF; 56 pgs; 1.32 Mb)
Executive Summary (PDF; 23 pgs; 356K)
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Key findings and recommendations
Of the 10,993 business leaders polled,
- Future concern is rising about the expected impact of HIV/AIDS on firms’ operations over the next five years (46% compared to 37% last year)
- Very few firms have conducted a quantitative HIV/AIDS risk assessment (9%)
- The majority of firms where national HIV prevalence exceeds 1 in 5 have formal HIV/AIDS policies (58%)
- Where prevalence drops below 1 in 5, very few firms have a policy (20%) and these are likely to be informal
- Policies addressing the issues of discrimination in promotion, pay or benefits based on HIV status are rare (18%)
The report also unveils new research into the triggers for US-based business involvement to tackle HIV/AIDS.
The report concludes with recommendations that businesses need to work with partners to develop increasingly robust HIV/AIDS workplace programmes that address discrimination and access to treatment as underlying root problems of the disease.
Contributors
The full report was written by David Bloom, who is Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography at the Harvard School of Public Health. Co-authors included Lakshmi Reddy Bloom, Head of Data for Decisions; David Steven and Mark Weston of River Path Associates. Francesca Boldrini directed the report development. This report was developed in cooperation with UNAIDS and the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR).
Business and Malaria: A Neglected Threat?
Business and Malaria: A Neglected Threat? is the latest in the GHI's series of Global Business Surveys. Based on the opinions of over 8,000 business leaders in over 100 countries, this report discusses the impacts of malaria on business and the steps the private sector can take to combat malaria. It is intended to monitor both the perceived impact of malaria among the business community as well as to provide recommendations for greater business engagement and partnership in malaria control.
Download the full report(PDF; 55 pages; 2.29MB)
Key findings and recommendations
Of the over 8,000 business leaders polled,
- Worldwide, 22 per cent report that malaria currently affects their business, with 10 per cent reporting serious impact
- In Sub-Saharan Africa, 72 per cent report a current business impact, with 39 per cent reporting serious impact
- In countries with at least some malaria, 40 per cent of firms expect impacts within the next five years.
- Additionally, 72 per cent believed malaria eradication would increase efficiency and production, 46 per cent believed it would reduce operating expenses and 45 per cent believed it would increase sales.
- Concern over malaria is reduced in countries that are perceived to be generally well-governed and that have a socially responsible private sector
Contributors
The full report was written by David E. Bloom, who is the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography at the Harvard School of Public Health; Lakshmi Reddy Bloom, who is an information systems consultant and head of Data for Decisions; and Mark Weston, who is an independent policy consultant and researcher. Francesca Boldrini and David Kim of the Global Health Initiative, World Economic Forum, directed the report development.
The State of Business Coalitions in Sub-Saharan Africa
Business Coalitions Tackling AIDS: A Worldwide Review - Executive Summary (add link) and Full Report (add link)
 The State of Business Coalitions in Sub-Saharan Africa
In the first-ever study of its kind, The State of Business Coalitions in Sub-Saharan Africa, shows how 27 countries are supporting businesses in addressing HIV/AIDS. At least 20 coalitions exist in sub-Saharan Africa today, with more than 16 having been established in the last 5 years to meet growing demands. The study provides guidance to newly-launched and those soon to be formed coalitions; shares best practices, benefits, achievements; and highlights key challenges facing coalitions. Other businesses and donors are now being urged to back the approach and help strengthen these coalitions as an important part of the solution to the epidemic, which is devastating Africa’s people and economy.
For five years the GHI and World Bank’s AIDS Campaign Team for Africa (ACTafrica) have been working together to catalyse public-private partnerships in health by building and supporting business coalitions across Africa, and hence are well placed to coordinate the mapping and evaluation of the work done to date.
- Read the Report (PDF; 743k; 36 pgs)
Malaria - a neglected threat to business
Harnessing Private Sector Capabilities to Meet Public Needs: The Potential of Partnerships to Advance progress on Hunger, Malaria and Education
Malaria - a neglected threat to business
The Global Health Initiative produced the largest and most comprehensive report ever on the impact of malaria on business. The report found that 72% of Sub-Saharan African businesses are effected by malaria. In response, the GHI launched a set of guidelines to encourage and assist businesses in Africa to take a more proactive role in the fight against malaria by setting up workplace based schemes.
Business and Malaria Report (PDF; 55pgs; 2.8MB)
Malaria Workplace Guidelines (PDF; 50pgs; 1.5MB)
Public-Private Partnerships in Health:The Private Sector’s Role in Public-Private Partnerships - Executive Summary (add link) and Full Report (add link)
Harnessing Private Sector Capabilities to Meet Public Needs: The Potential of Partnerships to Advance progress on Hunger, Malaria and Education
Many of today’s global and regional development challenges are too large and complex to be addressed by traditional intergovernmental processes and public sector delivery alone. Expertise from a variety of disciplines, stakeholders and regions is required. This report by the World Economic Forum's Centre for Public-Private Partnership shows the significant potential for the private sector to help meet the Millennium Development Goals related to hunger, malaria and basic education. It finds that companies are often far more prepared to apply their business expertise or assets to a problem than to issue a one-off charitable cash grant, and that engaging business in such a way that leverages their core competencies and business interests is perhaps the most effective and sustainable opportunity for business to contribute. The report is intended to be a practical tool that companies, governments and others can use to identify new areas of public-private cooperation in development partnerships.
Download the report
(PDF; 48 pages; 2.13MB)
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