...The South African government’s strategic plan for tackling HIV/Aids and sexually transmitted infections…emphasises the need for partnership between government, civil society and business…[T]he need for corporate involvement is ever greater than before…Funding is not only needed for HIV/Aids treatment and patient-care plans…but also for related issues such as hunger eradication, education and supporting children made vulnerable or orphaned by the disease. It has also become crucial to expand corporate policies on HIV/Aids to serve not only employees, their dependants and communities, but also their supply chains...[I]f the mass of smaller suppliers do not offer the same kind of support, the spread of the pandemic will continue largely unabated… [refers to Eskom]