Subject: Japanese Firms Fear AIDS
Date: Published: 4/16/93 (26 lines)
Source: Wall Street Journal. Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc.

    International:
    World Wire
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    Compiled by Richard L. Holman

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    JAPANESE FIRMS POLLED ON AIDS
    A third of Japanese companies favor isolating employees infected
 with the HIV virus that causes AIDS, a survey found.  The Yokohama
 Chamber of Commerce said its survey was the first on Japanese
 corporate attitudes about AIDS.  Of the 4,200 respondents, 10% would
 encourage carriers of the virus to resign and 20% would try to have
 them confined to a hospital.  Firms fear HIV carriers can infect
 other employees and hurt a company's image.  The government is waging
 an advertising campaign to combat what it characterizes as
 widespread ignorance in Japan about AIDS and its causes.

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