Workplace Programmes
HEAIDS has identified a need to assist institutions of higher education to develop their HIV/AIDS workplace programmes. Only a few institutions have implemented such programmes despite the fact that they all have large numbers of employees.
The higher education sector employs a total of 50 000 full time staff and thousands of additional part time employees. Small institutions have several hundred employees, while at large institutions the staff establishment may run to thousands.
In the private sector, workplace HIV/AIDS programmes are accepted as a sound business investment because they conserve the company's valuable human capital and stem unacceptably high rates of attrition due to illness and death.
The imperative of conserving human capital is especially strong in the higher education sector where individual academics often represent unique, and therefore irreplaceable, intellectual resources. The need to make up the deficit in workplace interventions is, therefore, an urgent priority.
HEAIDS assistance
The national HIV/AIDS prevalence and social survey for higher education forms the foundation of HEAIDS support to institutions in the area of workplace programme development. (See Research for details of survey)
HEAIDS intends to use the findings of this study to:
The higher education sector employs a total of 50 000 full time staff and thousands of additional part time employees. Small institutions have several hundred employees, while at large institutions the staff establishment may run to thousands.
In the private sector, workplace HIV/AIDS programmes are accepted as a sound business investment because they conserve the company's valuable human capital and stem unacceptably high rates of attrition due to illness and death.
The imperative of conserving human capital is especially strong in the higher education sector where individual academics often represent unique, and therefore irreplaceable, intellectual resources. The need to make up the deficit in workplace interventions is, therefore, an urgent priority.
HEAIDS assistance
The national HIV/AIDS prevalence and social survey for higher education forms the foundation of HEAIDS support to institutions in the area of workplace programme development. (See Research for details of survey)
HEAIDS intends to use the findings of this study to:
- Produce a sector framework for workplace programmes.
- Develop individualised HIV/AIDS workplace programmes in consultation with individual institutions, where required.
