Incentives for HIV testing at the workplace in the automotive industry in the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality: ethical considerations

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dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-21 en
dc.date.accessioned 2024-11-28T16:57:11Z
dc.date.available 2024-11-28T16:57:11Z
dc.date.issued 2017-07-21 en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/11041
dc.description.abstract Comprehensive HIV and AIDS workplace programmes made use of substantial lottery incentives in HIV counselling and testing drives to promote HIV testing at four companies in the automotive industry in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality. The main aim was to use lottery incentives to increase uptake for HIV testing. This would help to define company HIV prevalence and ensure timely support, care and treatment of employees. In total, 1 324 employees, making up about 90% of the total staff, were tested for HIV in the four companies during wellness testing days. In order to gain an understanding of employees' experiences of the lotteries as part of the HIV counselling and testing drive, quantitative data were collected among a total of 414 employees, and 17 interviews were conducted in the four companies. In this article, we investigate the issue of whether the lotteries unduly influenced the employees' participation in workplace HIV testing, and an approach to resolving an identified ethical dilemma is presented. The ethical question as to whether lottery incentives contribute to undue coercion was explored using both a utilitarian and a deontological approach. The analysis concluded that the use of lotteries to encourage HIV testing in the workplaces of the automotive industry in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality can be deemed morally acceptable. en
dc.format.medium Print en
dc.subject WORKPLACE en
dc.subject NELSON MANDELA BAY en
dc.subject HIV TESTING AND COUNSELLING (HTC) en
dc.subject INCENTIVE SYSTEM en
dc.subject ETHICS OF SCIENCE en
dc.title Incentives for HIV testing at the workplace in the automotive industry in the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality: ethical considerations en
dc.type Journal Article en
dc.description.version Y en
dc.ProjectNumber N/A en
dc.Volume 10(1) en
dc.BudgetYear 2017/18 en
dc.ResearchGroup HIV/AIDS, STIs and TB en
dc.SourceTitle South African Journal of Bioethics and Law en
dc.ArchiveNumber 9837 en
dc.PageNumber 11-14 en
dc.outputnumber 8745 en
dc.bibliographictitle Weihs, M., Meyer-Weitz, A. & Baasner-Weihs, F. (2017) Incentives for HIV testing at the workplace in the automotive industry in the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality: ethical considerations. South African Journal of Bioethics and Law. 10(1):11-14. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/11041 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/11041 en
dc.publicationyear 2017 en
dc.contributor.author1 Weihs, M. en
dc.contributor.author2 Meyer-Weitz, A. en
dc.contributor.author3 Baasner-Weihs, F. en


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