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.
Introduction to HIV and AIDS
Aims of HIV training History of disease
Statistics and impact Stages and symptoms of HIV Infection
Factors influencing disease progression
Main types of HIV transmission in South Africa
Behaviours that promote HIV/AIDS
Support systems for dealing with HIV/AIDS
Basic applicable treatment Ways of preventing HIV transmission
Male and Female condom Dynamics of HIV testing
Impact of HIV/AIDS in the workplace. Constitutional rights of employees
Professional animated videos of the complete course content in short video lessons.
Complete training guide
Workbook to support the learning
Formative assessment – Quiz after sections of content to test your understanding on the theory.
Practical: Completion of all workplace exercises
Summative assessment: Online monitored assessment