Adding HIV/AIDS and narcotics prevention messages to existing workplace training programmes for a positive return on investment Categories Company: Industry: Country: Disease: Last Updated: Bank Tabungan Negara (BTN) Financial Services Indonesia HIV/AIDS December 2003 Key Questions • Is a written HIV/AIDS-specific policy required to ensure the successful delivery of prevention messages and nondiscrimination? • Beyond process metrics, how can BTN measure the success of this programme? Given the low prevalence, what would be an appropriate baseline? • What impact does linking the HIV/AIDS training messages to narcotics issues have on employee perceptions of non drug related HIV/AIDS high-risk behaviours? Download the full PT Bank Tabungan Negara (BTN) HIV/AIDS Indonesia Case Study or preview the first page below: Case Study Executive Summary Overview Bank Tabungan Negara (BTN) is an Indonesian state-owned bank. BTN specializes in consumer banking and home credit services for middle and lower-middle income customers. The bank has approximately 2,725 employees who operate 180 branches in major cities and towns in Indonesia. In 2003, BTN’s total assets were US$ 3.4 billion and the bank was holding deposits for 5.6 million customers and providing home credit to 2.1 million customers. Business Case BTN started a workplace narcotics and HIV/AIDS prevention programme because it believes that its employees are at risk for sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS. BTN also believes that prevention is so cost effective that it will pay for itself after averting two narcotics-related HIV/AIDS cases. In April 2003, BTN launched a combined HIV and narcotics prevention programme with the primary goal of reducing the risk of HIV transmission and narcotics use among employees and dependants. The Indonesian Department of Health estimated that there are currently 90,000 to 130,000 Indonesians who are HIV+, and that this number will continue to increase exponentially until radical interventions are undertaken. BTN believes that its employees and their families risk contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS, through two main high-risk behaviours: injecting drug use and unsafe sexual practices. BTN’s April 2003 to October 2004 workplace prevention budget is US$ 13,372, which corresponds to US$ 3.27 per employee per year. Programme Description BTN’s narcotics and HIV/AIDS programme aims to reduce employee high-risk behaviours and thus the chance of staff members or their families becoming HIV positive. BTN does not have a written HIV/AIDS-specific policy, but senior managers have expressed and communicated a commitment to maintain prevention activities in the workplace and community, as well as to ensure HIV+ employee rights. BTN works with a local non-governmental organization (NGO), Komite Kemanusian Indonesia (KKI), to help a core group of managers develop and implement a volunteer-based peer HIV/AIDS and narcotics education programme in each of its branch offices. BTN provides referrals to all workers to encourage them to access voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) services in the community. Although BTN currently provides employees with access to hospitalization benefits for AIDS-related opportunistic infections, BTN does not currently facilitate access to anti-retrovirals (ARVs). Programme Evaluation BTN monitors the quality and coverage of its programme on a quarterly basis. The company evaluates the coverage of the training sessions and estimates that it has reached 600 employees. Pre- and post- training surveys estimate that employee knowledge about HIV/AIDS has increased from a score of 62% to 94%. The tests cover the following topics: (1) description of HIV and AIDS; (2) the ways HIV is transmitted; (2) the ways HIV is not transmitted; (3) how to avoid infection; and (4) attitudes about people living with HIV/AIDS and their rights to work. BTN’s goal is to educate an additional 800 employees before March 2004 and the remaining 1,275 employees before October 2004. The company also hopes to extend its community-based prevention activities. .. Documents Download the full PT Bank Tabungan Negara (BTN) HIV/AIDS Indonesia Case Study (PDF format; 7 pages; 200k) BTN Pre and Post HIV/AIDS Training Assessment (PDF format; 9 pages; 194k)

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