Title: Construction workplace interventions for prevention, care, support and treatment of HIV / AIDS.

POPLINE Document Number: 276690

Author(s):

McGreevey W
Alkenbrack S
Stover J

Source citation:

Washington, D.C., Futures Group International, POLICY Project, 2003 May 23. 16 p.

Abstract:

This paper identifies eight interventions for HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment of construction workers. Where prevalence is low, cost of the eight interventions is 0.14 percent of the cost of a major construction project. With high prevalence levels of ten percent of the workforce, costs of the package of interventions would still fall below one percent of total project costs. These percentages are low enough to permit contractors to include the costs of such services among the indirect costs for worker injury protection, insurance and emergency care without substantially increasing total project costs. Sustained contracting agency financing of the package could provide a model for local sustainability of HIV/AIDS services. Contract agreements, labor legislation, and regulation of this industry could lead the way toward reducing stigma, financing essential interventions on a sustainable basis independent of general taxation, and generating new attitudes toward HIV/AIDS as a multisectoral issue. (author's)

Keywords:

Developing Countries
Recommendations
Workers
Construction
HIV Prevention
AIDS Prevention
Treatment
Workplace
Interventions
Cost Effectiveness
Economic Factors
Labor Force
Human Resources
Social Planning
HIV Infections
Viral Diseases
Diseases
AIDS
Employment
Macroeconomic Factors
Programs
Organization and Administration
Evaluation Indexes
Quantitative Evaluation
Evaluation