Aids Awareness
What is this course about?
South Africa still carries one of the world's highest HIV infection rates, and silence in the workplace only makes that worse. This 1-day Staff Training workshop for all staff busts common myths around HIV/AIDS, teaches the ABC prevention rule, and covers transmission, testing, and treatment realities. Delegates leave equipped to protect themselves, support colleagues, and remove the stigma that still surrounds testing. The result: a workplace better equipped to face one of South Africa's most pressing health and productivity challenges.
Key content covered
Looking at Ourselves
Taking responsibility for our role in the spread of this disease
Understanding HIV/Aids
How the disease operates
Signs and Symptoms of Aids
What to look out for
Get Tested
The practicalities and why we benefit from knowing our status
Celebrities Who Have Been Tested and Let Us Know
Forgetting the shame - if our role models can deal with it, so can we
How Does a Person Catch HIV/AIDS
Practical understanding of how the disease is transmitted
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
The role these play in the transmission of AIDS and their prevalence
Untrue Beliefs and Myths
Busting the myths!
ABC Rule
What this is and how to implement it
How to Prevent Catching HIV/AIDS
Taking care of ourselves
Treatment
Practicalities and realities
How to Live with HIV/AIDS
This is possible - how to make it a reality
Great Cost to South Africa of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
A holistic view
Looking
You benefit from our experience
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
HIV/AIDS has created a new challenge and a new dimension in the workplace, not only from the perspective of how to treat the illness and how to support an individual who is HIV positive, but this disease is also responsible for the 100,000 (2012) child-headed households in our country. The societal impact of this is huge on employers and employees alike.
Unit standard alignment
| US ID | NQF | Credits | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13915 | 3 | 4 | Demonstrate understanding of HIV/AIDS and its impact on the workplace. |
| 252033 | 5 | 8 | Demonstrate ways of dealing with the effects of dread diseases and in particular HIV/AIDS |
| 14656 | 1 | 5 | Demonstrate an understanding of sexuality and sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS (Historical) |
Compiled for maximum organisational outcome — SETA alternatives are available on request.
Run Aids Awareness for your team
Every workshop we publish is also delivered in-house — at your premises anywhere in South Africa and beyond, at one of our venues, or live online. Before we deliver, our course designers can adapt Aids Awareness to your team: your industry’s examples in the case work, your real challenges in the exercises, your operational rhythm in the schedule. We meet you, agree the outline together, and only then do you place the order.
In-house rates drop per delegate as the group grows — for larger teams it is usually the more affordable option as well as the better-fitting one.