Business pays an increasing proportion of the costs of employee stress and lack of health understanding: directly - in the form of increased health-care costs and increased absenteeism; and indirectly - through lowered productivity and diminished morale.

As a strategic initiative, wellness programmes help to make companies more productive and more competitive, while employees become more employable. Healthy organisations play a pivotal role in contributing to a positive psyche/morale of all South Africans, as well as to our country's continued economic viability in global markets.

In addition to all this, wellness forms a key cornerstone strategy in the management of HIV/AIDS at the workplace. Why do we say this? The following expert opinion says it all:

Wellness Management is a useful concept to use in relation to HIV/AIDS and STIs as it clearly highlights the need and importance of keeping a person with HIV/AIDS healthy. It also highlights the need to keep a person with an STI healthy to prevent the spread of HIV.

The Wellness Health Letter is the ideal tool to help you to keep your employees who are good risks from becoming bad risks and to manage your current employees who represent high risks. In other words, it will help you to keep your employees as healthy as possible and therefore as productive as possible, for as long as possible.

Best of all, people tell us they don't "love" the health letter just because it contains information. You can get information anywhere. They love it, and our other resources, because they inform and comfort, inspire and transform.

Our goal still remains to produce a publication that is 100% loyal to its readers and therefore, for ethical reasons, the health letter has never accepted commercial advertising. At this point, we have no intention of changing our successful (and obviously respected) format. And, as always, personalisation is available - we do the work, you get the credit!