Abstract
In Cameroon, logging and plantation companies are places of work and life for part of the country's population. In this context, in 1999/2000, it seemed relevant to researchers (anthropologists) to take as an example one of these agricultural enterprises to study the management of workers' sexuality and their exposure to the risks of AIDS and STDs, by making the assumption that forestry companies can constitute widely underestimated nuclei for spreading the epidemic to all regions of the country, particularly in rural areas.The study on HIV risk perception and risk management supported the initial hypothesis that rural agricultural enterprises are places at risk of spreading the epidemic. It also highlights that companies, regardless of the means adopted (systematic screening for some, minimizing the epidemic for others), do not always provide the appropriate answers.On the part of the workers, even if everyone agrees to recognize the great sexual mobility inside the company, we note that the danger is always perceived as coming from outside, of people categorized at risk as "the Arrivals "and not as a danger of proximity. The risk associated with the mobility of workers outside the plantation, mainly to their village of origin during annual holidays, is not taken into consideration at all.