This paper explores the organisational structures of traditional healers; outlines their explanations of HIV/AIDS; and discusses how they can be integrated with company programmes. The South African Traditional Health Practitioners Act seeks to register; regulate and promote traditional healers; but its ability to do this depends on strong; formalised associations of traditional healers. The different forms of traditional healer groupings in South Africa are described along with the implications that their organisational structure has for knowledge; competition and service standards. Traditional healers' diverse and fluid beliefs about HIV and AIDS are explained together with ways in which cooperation between companies; allopathic medicine and African traditional healing practices could be promoted in workplace responses to HIV/AIDS. It is suggested that such collaboration should focus on 'windows of compatibility' rather than on overall agreement. Moreover; it is argued that any response to HIV/AIDS must be embedded within a wider set of agreements; the most critical being a genuine process of referral between the traditional and allopathic healthcare systems. Companies are in a strong position to initiate such reforms; and this would support the professionalisation of traditional healers as well as help coordinate a wider and more effective response to the HIV epidemic in South Africa