CCA's HIV/AIDS Initiative


	The Corporate Council on Africa has joined in the fight to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa by increasing corporate involvement in prevention, care and treatment programs and by helping businesses cope with the impact of the disease.

New & Noteworthy	Resources for You
Scenario Building: Planning for a Future with HIV/AIDS: Participate in the April 2006 workshop “Managing Risks – Prolonging Life:”An HIV/AIDS and Risk Management Conference for Micro, SME and Commercial Finance - April 2006 CCA Awarded $100,000 World Bank Contract to Mobilize Private Sector Response to HIV/AIDS in Four Francophone Countries Press release	AIDS Control for Companies in Africa (ACCA) Toolbox: Free Access to the online toolbox Health Management Information Systems, the Private Sector and HIV/AIDS: World Bank (ACTafrica), PEPFAR & CCA Meeting - Jan 2006 CCA Member Profiles: CCA members actively addressing HIV/AIDS in Africa. * Featured Member: IBM FightAIDS@Home Initiative

Development Gateway Foundation: ICTs Are An Integral Part of HIV/AIDS Programs.

How has the Information Society made an impact on the HIV/AIDS epidemic?

According to the Development Gateway Foundation (DGF), a brief stock-taking reveals that the quantum jump in the HIV/AIDS ‘message and medium explosion’ has largely been possible through information and communication technologies (ICTs) – a factor in making communication itself a major component in campaigns to prevent and control the epidemic.

Be it through radio, television and the web to send messages, or CD-ROMs and DVDs to present materials - ICTs form the building blocks of modern systems which make the production and content development of video and audio programs, the access to messages and information, and the large-scale dissemination of information, easier.

Learn more about how ICTs impact the fight against HIV/AIDS

Read the DGF Special Report: "Information Society. The the Next Steps"