Hiv And Aids In The Workplace

Author : Derek Adam-Smith,David Goss
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-28
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781135747619

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Organizing Aids by Derek Adam-Smith,David Goss Pdf

It is estimated that 90% of those who are HIV positive are in employment. However, the significant body of literature into HIV/AIDS to date has primarily focused on the medical aspects of the disease and its implications for health/social policy. There has been little analysis of the employment implications of HIV/AIDS, and what does exist is essentially descriptive and usually limited to legal features of the employment relationship. This text provides a review of the theoretical and practical issues which bear upon organisational responses to HIV/AIDS. The authors set these responses in a historical and international context, before analysing recent research findings. In the first three chapters, issues are explored through an analysis which highlights international convergences and divergences. The remaining chapters draw on the authors' research to explore the "internal" dynamics of HIV/AIDS in the workplace.

Author : Jocelyn Vass,Sizwe Phakathi
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 079692161X

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Managing HIV in the Workplace by Jocelyn Vass,Sizwe Phakathi Pdf

Providing an in-depth analysis of the opportunities and constraints faced by six small- and medium-sized enterprises in managing the burden of HIV/AIDS within their companies, this study focuses on the complexity of HIV risk dynamics, as well as the challenges of implementing effective HIV/AIDS intervention programs, and highlights achievements despite resource constraints. Through qualitative research techniques, the study reflects not only the views and opinions of management, but also the experiences of ordinary employees as participants in HIV/AIDS interventions.

Author : United States. National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : UOM:39015032962980

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HIV/AIDS by United States. National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Pdf

Author : William F. Banta
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0669280569

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AIDS in the Workplace by William F. Banta Pdf

Health experts estimate that one million people in the United States are HIV positive, but new medical treatments allow many to work for years after contracting the AIDS virus. Drawing on the most comprehensive and up-to-date information now available on the complex legal and ethical issues related to AIDS, attorney William F. Banta explains employers', employees', and applicants' rights and responsibilities as defined by the new Americans with Disabilities Act, OSHA, COBRA, the National Labor Relations Act, state and local laws, arbitration awards, and the Centers for Disease Control. He clarifies the complex issues of hiring, firing, insuring, and testing applicants and employees with the AIDS virus. More than any other group of employees, physicians, nurses, dentists, and other health care workers have generated concern about transmitting or acquiring HIV on the job. While the risk of actual infection is very low for medical practitioners, and even more remote for patients, health care employers should develop policies and procedures to guide them through complex and sensitive situations and limit their liability in the event of a legal challenge. They must balance the infected employee's right to work against the obligation to protect the patient. They must weigh the obligation to treat infected patients against the right of employees to safe working conditions. They must consider the right of an employee or patient to know the HIV condition of the other, as well as the infected person's right to confidentiality. William Banta cuts through the medical, legal, and ethical morass to analyze these matters with clarity. The extensive appendix of laws and regulations, governmentrecommendations, checklists, and sample policies will assist readers in developing or evaluating their own workplace procedures. Workers who are HIV positive, managers, union officials, attorneys, and physicians, will find valuable advice on one of the most urgent problems of the 1990s.

Author : Marion Maguire
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783638747332

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HIV and AIDS in the Workplace by Marion Maguire Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Business economics - Personnel and Organisation, grade: 1.0 (A), Hawai'i Pacific University (-), course: Lecture MBA Program, 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In the business environment HIV and AIDS has become both a health and an economic problem. As the epidemic spreads throughout the workforce, Human resources personnel and managers in general must be prepared to deal effectively with the challenge of having employees who are affected by HIV and AIDS. The majority of large U.S. corporations already employ a substantial number of people who have AIDS or are infected with HIV. Integration of HIV and AIDS programs into human resources management systems should be viewed as a means to achieve overall effective human resource management and to reduce costs. Currently, only 16% of U.S. businesses offer AIDS/HIV workplace education programs to their employees. In order to deal with this issue effectively, managers need to know how HIV is transmitted, the stages of the disease, how to prevent discrimination against employees who have AIDS or are infected with HIV, and what accommodations must be provided for such workers under the ADA and other laws. They also need to learn how to manage the psychological climate of work groups that have employees with HIV or AIDS to prevent workplace disruptions. Statement of the problem HIV and AIDS have become a serious problem in all five continents. HIV continues to spread around the world and global statistics show that 34.3 million people are living with HIV in 2003, in comparison to 5.4 million in 1999. The virus impacts not only the internal system of an individual's body, but also does the infection rate affects business and the workplace. Health records show that on average HIV-infected employees have taken seventeen full days of sick leave. The cost of absenteeism, provision of hospital and medical care, training and wages for new employee's replacem

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122237196

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Workplace Policy Guideline on HIV/AIDS by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : UIUC:30112069481734

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AIDS/HIV Infection and the Workplace by Anonim Pdf

Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 9221116336

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HIV/AIDS and the World of Work by International Labour Office Pdf

It provides practical guidance to policy-makers, employers' and workers' organizations and other social partners for formulating and implementing workplace policy, prevention and care programs. This is an important ILO contribution to the global effort to fight HIV/AIDS.

Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 9220218976

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HIV/AIDS and the World of Work by International Labour Office Pdf

The present bilingual volume contains the English and French versions of the proposed Recommendation on HIV/AIDS and the world of work, amended in the light of the observations made by governments and by employers' and workers' organizations and for the reasons set out in the Office commentaries.

Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789221158240

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HIV/AIDS and Work by International Labour Office Pdf

It is estimated that by the end of 2003 there were just under 38 million people living with HIV/AIDS, with all but two million of these people of working age. This report, prepared by the ILO Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work, sets out global estimates of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the labour force and the working age population in 50 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean and in more developed regions. Issues discussed include: the implications for the private and public sectors, on agriculture and concerns for food insecurity and on the informal economy; on women and children; policy implications and examples of responses to the problem in a variety of workplace settings; provision of antiretroviral therapy in conjunction with HIV prevention in the workplace and the potential for expanded access to workplace-based treatment.

Author : Project Literacy (South Africa)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 1770254943

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Positive People by Project Literacy (South Africa) Pdf

Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 9221206408

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HIV/AIDS and the World of Work by International Labour Office Pdf

Contains information on HIV/AIDS in the world of work provided by member States in reply to surveys, meetings of experts, and other sources available to the International Labour Office. Includes considerations for the adoption of a new Recommendation on the subject.

Author : Oagile Key Dingake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132372751

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Legal Aspects of HIV/AIDS at the Workplace in Botswana and South Africa by Oagile Key Dingake Pdf

Author : Jane Hodges
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : CORNELL:31924092432008

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Guidelines on Addressing HIV/AIDS in the Workplace Through Employment and Labour Law by Jane Hodges Pdf

Author : Drienie Van Wyk
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 070217288X

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Working with HIV / AIDS @ Work by Drienie Van Wyk Pdf

This updated publication, including an addendum, addresses various issues around HIV/Aids, discussed in the context of the workplace. In line with the unit standard requirements, the material includes a variety of formative assessment activities, using individual, pair and group work assignments, actual case studies, fact boxes, other useful and up-to date information and glossary terms.