Global Business Coalition Awards
The Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GBC) seeks to transform the business response to HIV/AIDS, promoting HIV prevention, care and treatment programs for the workplace and innovative partnerships with governments and civil society. Each year, the GBC presents its Awards for Business Excellence, recognizing innovative business responses to HIV and AIDS in companies around the world. The 2008 Awards were presented on June 9, 2008 in New York City.
The GBC instituted these awards in 1998 to recognize the valuable contribution made by business to the fight against HIV/AIDS, and to identify and promote the best of these as models of good practice. For 2008, the GBC selected nine (9) winners for the Awards for Business Excellence.
2008 Awards For Business Excellence
- HIV/AIDS: Core Competence - BBC World Service Trust
The sheer magnitude and reach of BBC WST's HIV/AIDS mass media campaign in India makes this program truly ground breaking in its scale and impact. Learn more about BBC World Service Trust.
- HIV/AIDS: Community Philanthropy - Intesa Sanpaolo
By providing €9 million in funding over a three-year period, Intesa Sanpaolo and the Cariplo Foundation helped financed the Drug Resources Enhancement against AIDS and Malnutrition (DREAM) program in the community of Sant'Egidio, Malawi. The program also established three molecular biology laboratories and 10 health centers serving almost 10,000 people, building critical testing and treatment capacities on the ground. Learn more about Intesa Sanpaolo.
- HIV/AIDS: Comprehensive Workplace Programs - Standard Bank Group
The comprehensive and integrated nature of Standard Bank's HIV/AIDS Management program makes it exceptional. Rolled out in 2002, it is now the most comprehensive in Africa. By incorporating its HIV/AIDS program into its larger workplace wellness strategy, the Bank reaches nearly 40,000 employees across 16 African countries, as well as their immediate families, and has succeeded in stabilizing HIV prevalence in its workplace. Learn more about the Standard Bank Group.
- HIV/AIDS: Expanded Community Initiatives - Xstrata Coal South Africa
Xstrata Coal's community program seeks to extend the reach and effectiveness of its successful HIV/AIDS and TB workplace program, through which over 90 percent of employees have been tested for HIV. The company is working through an innovative partnership model with Re-Action (a professional services agency for health and sustainability) to help stabilize the health and welfare of its employees, their families and communities. The program is located in Mpumalanga Province, the 'Coal Powerbelt' of South Africa, where one-in-four people is living with HIV. Learn more about Xstrata Coal South Africa.
- HIV/AIDS: Leadership - Viacom
For more than 25 years, Viacom has taken a leadership role in fighting HIV/AIDS. With the strong support of its MTV Networks, BET Networks and Paramount Pictures divisions, the company has made an enormous, fundamental commitment to public education about AIDS prevention, as well as created groundbreaking programs to reduce stigma and raise resources to fight for a cure. Learn more about Viacom.
- HIV/AIDS: Women & Girls - Johnson & Johnson
The partnership between Johnson & Johnson and mothers2mothers (m2m) in South Africa was borne out of a mutual commitment to preventing-mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) by enhancing the uptake of PMTCT services. m2m utilizes an innovative model of engaging HIV-positive women who are new mothers to serve as Mentor Mothers (MMs) to pregnant women. In 2007, the Johnson & Johnson and m2m partnership provided services to more than 7,400 pregnant women in South Africa. Learn more about Johnson & Johnson and mothers2mothers (m2m).
- HIV/AIDS: Workplace Testing & Counseling - Telekom S.A. Limited
Telkom's workplace testing and counseling program is exemplary for its broad scale and its focus on destigmatizing HIV. Through Telkom's workplace program, employees and their families are provided comprehensive general health screenings that include an integrated voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) component aimed at reducing the stigma of getting tested. Learn more about Telekom S.A. Limited.
Awards for Business Excellence - Commended Programs
Learn more about the 2008 Awards for Business Excellence.
Who Can Enter
The Awards are restricted to businesses in the private sector. Applications are encouraged from companies from all industrial sectors, geographical regions and workforce size. Applications should be submitted for programs that are currently being implemented. Programs that include monitoring and evaluation components are particularly welcomed.
Companies may be nominated for an award by an NGO or public sector partners, but the entry must be made by the company itself: the GBC retains the right to publish case studies based on the entries received. Entering your company program signifies your willingness to make public its existence and certain non-commercially sensitive aspects of its content. Entries involving partnerships will be expected to offer references from the public and/or NGO partners.
The Judging Criteria
The expert judging panel is led by members of the GBC with representatives of UNAIDS and organizations of people living with HIV/AIDS.
Successful entries will show:
- Details of the process through which the program came about
- How the program is managed within the overall company structure
- The results of any monitoring or evaluation of the program
Entries must contain all the information requested in the entry form and be supported by relevant documents. These should be submitted in electronic form where possible. Photographic evidence of the program in action is welcomed.
For further information contact us:
The Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS
One Liberty Plaza
165 Broadway
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New York, NY 10006
USA
TEL +1 212 584 1600
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