HIV & AIDS IN THE WORKPLACE – Awareness Training

Target Audience: General employee awareness training

Companies feel the greatest impact of HIV/AIDS through their workforce, with direct consequences

for their bottom line. These include increased expenditures on medical and health insurance, funeral costs and death benefits, and the time and cost of recruiting and training new employees to replace lost personnel. In high prevalence areas, companies that take no action see their revenues, and ultimately profits, decrease as a result of higher absenteeism and staff turnover, reduced productivity, declining morale, and a shrinking consumer base. Even companies that do take action may find that their cost of doing business increases because suppliers and distributors are affected, leading to similar disruptions in the supply chain.

The aim of the HIV/AIDS Awareness Programme is to empower and increase the awareness to participants of HIV/AIDS, its impact, management and availability of support systems. This is to encourage early testing and lifestyle changes that will thereby reduce and prevent further infection.