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Narrative Reports at the Companies’ initiative:
Three companies (COLAS, CIS, and ASSIST) shared their activities or their narrative reports illustrating
the events they organized at their own initiatives, which integrate HIV AIDS sensitization.
These events, like sport competitions or parties out in the open, attracted many employees and
provided more time and space to hold interpersonal discussions on HIV AIDS prevention and organize
testing sessions.
According to assessment’s results, the COLAS Company was the one that distinguished itself the most
in terms of HIV AIDS prevention activities to employees.
DISCUSSION
The essential objectives set at the beginning of our intervention were reached, in terms of actions:
the number of employees sensitized on HIV AIDS and the number of condoms to be distributed were
reached thanks to the International AIDS Day Event, as well as the establishment of a reporting
system for the companies;
In terms of subcontractors’ activities assessment, indicators related to workers’ knowledge and
behaviors as well as indicators related to access to prevention were identified and were measured.
These measurements were possible thanks to the availability of the LQAS method, which
implementation did not require the use of a big team or a longer procedure than our intervention
capacity (1 person/2 months). The collaboration between the consultant and each company’s HSE
Manager were practically enough to conduct the surveys and to collect the data to be used.
The fact of giving the form to be filled out by the employees themselves created more confidentiality
to individual responses; the few minutes session of gathering to complete the forms avoided the
least disturbance to the companies’ production.
The LQAS method enabled an accurate production of the companies’ weakest and best
performances. It also enabled the most objective identification of who was going to win the
distinction.
However, the holding of an HIV toolbox once a week by the HSE was not always respected. We
noticed that they held it less often, for example once or twice a month, but the sessions were longer.
This can be effectively acceptable, given that the workers’ knowledge levels were high in terms of
condom use for example, and enabled the holding of longer sessions to learn and exchange adoption
of behaviors.
This time, we were not able to draft an HIV and STD fact sheets to be used by the HSE; in fact, as
soon as after December 1st, our time were practically absorbed by the quantitative research
activities on our subcontractors.
We noticed that none of the companies sent its regular monthly reports on HIV AIDS prevention
activities despite several forms of reminders; we noticed that a few companies did not carry out its
HIV prevention activities, at least, until the survey time, during which we came into contact with
