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International Hotel & Restaurant Association (IH & RA) initiative to combat HIV/AIDS - Southern Afri

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This is a joint initiative of the International Hotel & Restaurant Association (IH & RA) and the Federated Hospitality Association of South Africa (FEDHASA) to fight against HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa. The initiative acknowledges the devastating impact the disease is having on the hospitality workforce in the region and concludes that the industry must respond.
Communication Strategies

FEDHASA will widely distribute a recent IH & RA publication, "The Challenge of HIV/AIDS in the Workplace: a Guide for the Hospitality Industry," which is aimed at informing and educating the sector on the implications of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The guide outlines steps to be taken in 3 action areas aims at creating a responsive workplace: 1) Creating an HIV policy for business; 2) Providing HIV prevention education in the workplace; 3) Putting in place fair employment practices. Going beyond the workplace, it assesses the role that properties can play in the local community, providing services and information to guests and customers, educating employees' families about HIV/AIDS, and taking part in community action.
Development Issues

HIV/AIDS.
Key Points

Co-produced in 1999 with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the guide was developed specifically to address the needs of the hospitality industry, and provide practical information to enable hotels and restaurants of all sizes to develop HIV/AIDS policies and awareness programmes. The IH & RA is foregoing all copyrights on the guide's reproduction. The manual was put together from 1997-99. It was co-sponsored by the Thailand Business Coalition against AIDS which is actively promoting its distribution in the Asia-Pacific region. The guide may be downloaded from IH & RA's web site.
Partners



International Hotel & Restaurant Association and the Federated Hospitality Association of South Africa.

Sources

Letter from Nicola Pogson to The Communication Initiative