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HORIZONS PROJECT
Evaluation and Accreditation of Workplace AIDS Programs
Horizons, with the Thailand Business Coalition on AIDS (TBCA) and the American International Assurance Company (AIA), examined the role of incentives in encouraging companies in Thailand to adopt workplace HIV and AIDS policies and programs that address stigma and discrimination and respond to the needs of workers for information and services.
The study was conducted among 857 companies in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, and neighboring provinces between May 2000 and April 2002. The companies were invited to join an initiative known as the AIDS-response Standard Organization (ASO), which provided incentives to encourage them to implement HIV/AIDS workplace programs and policies.
Key findings included:
- Managers were more motivated by social responsibility to improve their policies and programs than by incentives.
- Managers with pre-existing connections to the initiative were more likely to participate.
- Most participating companies improved their HIV/AIDS policies and programs.
- Broad policy improvements were not associated with specific changes at the employee level.
- Among companies that joined ASO, financial incentives were associated with greater policy improvements.
Building on these findings, the initiative was scaled up to 25 provinces in Thailand, beginning in late 2003. The TBCA received funding from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to recruit 2,500 workplaces to participate in the new program, in cooperation with the Ministry of Public Health, the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, business groups, AIA, and local nongovernmental organizations. There are plans to scale up the initiative to all 76 provinces by 2008.
Location
Thailand
Duration
July 1998–July 2003
Horizons and Population Council researchers
Katie Schenk, Simon Baker, Philip Guest, Patchara Rumakom
Non-Council collaborators
Thailand Business Coalition on AIDS
American International Assurance Company
Donors
US Agency for International Development
AusAID
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"Using incentives to encourage AIDS programs and policies in the workplace: A study of feasibility and impact in Thailand" (2004) (PDF) “The role of incentives in encouraging workplace HIV/AIDS policies and programs” (2003) (full text) "Doing the right thing for employees" (2003) (Contact horizons@popcouncil.org for a copy) |