Africa Centre for HIV/AIDS Management

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    An analysis of the impact of child support grant on teenage fertility rate in South Africa
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008-12) Mokoma, Tebogo Patrick; Roux, Andre; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. Dept. of Industrial Psychology. Africa Centre for HIV/AIDS Management.
    The introduction of Child Support Grant (CSG) in South Africa in 1998, gave rise to lots of unfounded rumours that it brings perverse incentives especially for teenagers to fall pregnant in order to access the grant. This research wants to determine whether there is a link between CSG and teenage fertility. The researcher in this research followed a triangulation of methods by using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Retrospective tables on CSG reports were analysed and correlation analysis was used to determine the link between the two variables. For qualitative data, in-depth interviews were conducted with teenage mothers and thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. The results obtained in this research suggests that there is no evidence that explicitly link CSG and teenage fertility rate except that there are other exogenous factors leading to the registration of the child for CSG.
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    A case study of Metropolitan Holdings Limited to assess the usefulness of the Global Business Coalition guidelines in relation to workplace HIV/AIDS programmes and a brief examination of the possible impact of the HIV/AIDS disclosure requirements, as recommended by the King II report
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005-04) Ferreira, Clive Joaquim; Roux, Andre; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic and Management Science. Dept. of Industrial Psychology. Africa Centre for HIV/AIDS Management.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Metropolitan Holdings Limited is a life insurance and investment company with a well-recognised brand, operating in a competitive environment. The Metropolitan Doyle model that the company developed in the 1980s was the first of its kind and is used to predict the course and impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Metropolitan has since been actively engaged in developing insurance products, designed to take HIV/AIDS into account. It has, moreover been active in advocating action on a wide range of issue relating to the disease, not least through its RedRibbon website, the publication of the respected journal, AIDS Analysis Africa, and through various community initiatives, particularly involving HIV/AIDS education. The company’s external work on the issue of HIV/AIDS is therefore well recognised. Although it has had an internal programme for several years, it has only seriously addressed the HIV/AIDS in the workplace since 2003 and in so doing, has not found the necessity of using any existing models of best practice. This case study examines the guidelines of a comprehensive HIV/AIDS programme, as set out by the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, with a view to finding out whether and to what extent a company such as Metropolitan might have implemented its recommendations and what impact it might have in the fight against HIV/AIDS in the workplace. The case study further examines the likely impact of the King II recommendations relating to the disclosure requirements on HIV/AIDS (in conjunction with the Global Reporting Initiative Guidelines) with a view to assessing whether these can enable a company such as Metropolitan, to have regard to the impact of the disease on the sustainability of their business and the steps that might be taken to mitigate the impact.
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    The knowledge of school managers using key elements of an HIV and AIDS workplace policy at Shatale circuit in the Mpumalanga Province
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-03) Tjale, Nkgatla Michael Ludwick; Roux, Andre; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic and Management Science. Dept. of Industrial Psychology. Africa Centre for HIV/AIDS Management.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this project is to establish whether the school managers of schools at Shatale circuit in Mpumalanga have knowledge of the ten key elements or principles of ILO code of good practice on aspects of HIV/AIDS. The research study aimed at the school managers such as Principals of schools, Deputy Principals and Head of Departments. The study indicated that most school managers know the most but not all of the key elements as they agree to application of them in their HIV/AIDS policy. The findings of the research indicated that all the schools have HIV/AIDS policy in their school and there are schools that developed their own HIV/AIDS policy and those that used HIV/AIDS pro format disc to create their HIV/AIDS policy. The schools that developed their school HIV/AIDS not from Department policy Pro format show that some of the Key elements are not applicable in their HIV/AIDS policy as well as legal frame work to enforce the rights of PLWHA. School that used Department policy pro format have the entire ten key elements and where the schools should show their knowledge of the legal framework, the school wrote statement that are not relevant. The study recommends the use of Legislations and Act to make the school HIV/AIDS policy a tool that can be used to press charges against any person who ignore the ten key principles of the workplace HIV/AIDS policy.
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    The role of HIV/AIDS disability grants in influencing people living with HIV to adhere to antiretroviral therapy with specific reference to the South African Red Cross Society in Nyanga
    (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-03) Ndlumbini, Ntombencane Margaret; Roux, Andre
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The first cases of HIV in South Africa were diagnosed in the early 1980s, but HIV did not become widespread in the general population until the early 1990s. Since 1994, the country has experienced an exponential rise in the number of HIV infections, AIDS diagnoses and HIV–related deaths. In 2005, an estimated 5,5 million people in South Africa were living with HIV, and an estimated 571 000 new infections occurred among persons 2 years and older. In recent years HIV prevalence has stabilized as the high number of new HIV infections has been offset by a high number of HIV-related deaths. The first national estimates of HIV incidence, published early in 2008, will serve a benchmark for monitoring future trends. Social factors such as stigma, poverty, unemployment, gender inequality, migrant labour, and sexual violence are important drivers of the HIV epidemic in South Africa. This study is a small-scale study to investigate the role of HIV disability grants in influencing people living with HIV and AIDS to adhere to antiretroviral therapy, with specific reference to the South African Red Cross Society in Nyanga. The primary objective of this study is twofold: (i) To determine the role of social grants in ARV adherence by people living with HIV and AIDS. (ii) To investigate whether people living with HIV and AIDS and using their grants are living a good healthy lifestyle.