Emerging markets

AIDS Is Your Business

If you’ve got global operations, you’ve got an HIV-infected workforce. Doing something about it will save lives—as well as money.

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Donald M. Thea

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Donald M. Thea

From the Magazine (February 2003)

If your company does business in a developing country anywhere in the world, be it Russia, China, South Africa, or Brazil, AIDS is your business.

A version of this article appeared in the February 2003 issue of Harvard Business Review.

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Sydney Rosen is an assistant professor,
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Jonathon Simon is the director,
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Jeffrey R. Vincent is a professor of natural resource and environmental economics at the University of California’s Graduate School of International Relations & Pacific Studies in San Diego.
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William MacLeod is an assistant professor,
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Matthew Fox is a statistical programmer, and
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Donald M. Thea is a professor at the Boston University School of Public Health’s Center for International Health.

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