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THE IMPACT OF HIV/AIDS ON THE GOVERNMENT

THE IMPACT OF HIV/AIDS ON THE GOVERNMENT . MARY CREWE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF AIDS UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA. How will each department manage the epidemic in terms of function and services How will the roles and functions need to be changed and adapted

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THE IMPACT OF HIV/AIDS ON THE GOVERNMENT

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  1. THE IMPACT OF HIV/AIDS ON THE GOVERNMENT MARY CREWE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF AIDS UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA

  2. How will each department manage the epidemic in terms of function and services • How will the roles and functions need to be changed and adapted • How to accommodate the changing social and political demands • How to realign departments and partnerships

  3. Identify key positions • Streamlined and efficient services • New work ethic • A core of ‘multi skilled’ staff • Avoiding duplication • Linking national and provincial services • Mobile task team • Good training on governance • Scenario planning • HIV/AIDS as a workplace issue

  4. Key considerations • Health – how to maintain the services • Training of the staff for new demands and expectations • Access to treatment • What are the health needs of orphans and vulnerable people • How to support families in health and home based care

  5. Labour – how to address the vulnerability of workers to HIV • Creation of employment for households • An un employment fund and access to housing, food, clothing • Maintaining productivity and the impact of lowered life expectancy • Support for unions through increased infection of members and • Creative labour practices

  6. Transport – how can young people be transported to schools and health services • How to keep young people in scholl and support families involved in care • Creating increased access to social support services • Protection of the transport sector • Justice - how to protect rights of children and families • Rights of PWAs and inheritance and property rights

  7. Agriculture – protection of the food supply • Development of support structures for rural agriculture • Impact on commercial agriculture • Importance of food supply as a prevention measure • The future – possibility for transformed government • New systems and notions of citizenship • Creation of a new social identity and post AIDS society.

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