[I]n...2002...Anglo [American started] provid[ing] testing for all employees who wanted it and free treatment for those who tested positive...Other businesses followed suit. SABMiller...was one of the first...The results...were better than anyone dared to hope. Free drugs gave workers an incentive to get tested, so many did. Thanks to lobbying by activists and improvements in technology, the price of drugs...plummeted...Drug firms made their medicines simpler to take...Corporate AIDS programmes are starting to pay for themselves by cutting absenteeism and staff turnover...The fight against AIDS has...changed the relationship between firms and their workers. Before AIDS, a mine boss at Anglo would worry about rockfalls...These days he takes a paternalistic interest in the sex lives of his workers...Mining firms have a strong incentive to keep employees healthy, because they are hard to replace...[T]he corporate fight against AIDS...[has also] helped to shame South Africa’s government into changing its AIDS policy.