Managing & Understanding HIV/AIDS

Understand the Disease & its Effects

HIV/Aids has a huge impact on our world today. It is one of those uncontrollable variables that businesses need to take into consideration in order to succeed. This course is designed to provide you with the knowledge to educate, inform and empower your workers to prevent and understand this disease.

Course Duration: One day

Course Outline:

Unit 1: What is HIV/AIDS?

  • Definitions
  • Differences

Unit 2: Why do I Need to Know About it?

  • Incurable can be prevented

Unit 3: Prevention Strategies

How do you get HIV?

  • sexual
  • other ways of transmission

Unit 4: Why Should I take an HIV Test?

  • If negative:
    - continue prevention
  • If positive:
    - prevent spread
    - lifestyle modifications
    - treatment

Unit 5: Your Rights with Regard to HIV Testing

  • Counselling
    - what effect a positive/negative result will have on you
  • Consent
  • Confidentiality

Unit 6: HIV Test

  • What is it?
  • How is it done?
  • Results

Unit 7: Does HIV cause Death?

  • The immune system
  • Opportunistic infection
  • CD4 count
  • Viral loca
  • Monitor HIV disease

Unit 8: Knowledge is Power

  • About the illness
    - stages and relevant treatment
  • Know about the treatment
    - your drugs
    - eating habits
    - healthy lifestyle
  • Learn about side-effects
  • What to look out for

      - symptoms indicating changes in health status

Unit 9: Loved Ones who are HIV Positive

Family member, friend or colleagues who are positive.

  • What can you do to protect yourself?
  • What can you do to protect them?
    - compliance
    - protection

Unit 10: New Information

Accreditation

Ingwe Corporate Training is an accredited provider with the Services SETA (SETQAA Decision number 1994). Courses are aligned to current registered unit standards.