@article{500729,
      note = {Prepared by Tony Barnett, Tsetsele Fantan, Bekezela  Mbakile and Alan Whiteside.},
      author = {Barnett, Tony and Fantan, Tsetsele and Mbakile, Bekezela  and Whiteside, Alan.},
      url = {http://digitallibrary.un.org/record/500729},
      title = {The private sector responds to the epidemic : Debswana - a  global benchmark},
      publisher = {UNAIDS,},
      abstract = {In many respects, Botswana is Africa’s success story. It  is peaceful, democratic and prosperous. But it also has the  worst AIDS epidemic in the world, with an adult prevalence  rate estimated at 35.8%. This case study describes the  response to this tragedy (which threatens to reverse all  the country’s gains of the past decades) of one of the  most important companies in Botswana—the Debswana  diamond-mining company. The company started with an AIDS  education and awareness programme, appointed full-time AIDS  programme coordinators and developed an HIV/AIDS management  policy. It conducted an institutional audit of  susceptibility and vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, which is  reported in some detail, together with findings and  lessons learned. Debswana’s work on HIV/AIDS represents a  ray of hope in a bleak situation and has much to teach the  private sector in the region and, perhaps, globally.},
      recid = {500729},
      pages = {48 p. :},
      address = {Geneva :. 2002},
      year = {2002},
}