On paper, South Africa has some of the world's best HIV workplace programmes, but on the ground they just aren't adding up...De Beers has long boasted that 86 percent of employees at its six mines have been tested by its voluntary counselling and testing...programme. The company estimates that 10 percent of its workforce is HIV-positive, but markedly less access the antiretroviral (ARV) treatment programme. Workers' fears about confidentiality, a preference for traditional medicine and poor patient-doctor communication were all cited as challenges to raising treatment numbers, according to an ongoing study by De Beers. [also refers to Pamodzi Gold]