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“HIV and AIDS and Education”

“HIV and AIDS and Education”. BEd Organizational Development Programme Friday, 4 November 2011 Harare. “Health Risk - Thinking Education”. David Mutambara Executive Director ZBCA. Presentation Outline. About the ZBCA Personal traits in management. HIV and AIDS Basic Information.

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“HIV and AIDS and Education”

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  1. “HIV and AIDS and Education” BEd Organizational Development Programme Friday, 4 November 2011 Harare “Health Risk - Thinking Education” David Mutambara Executive Director ZBCA Zimbabwe Business Council on AIDS

  2. Presentation Outline • About the ZBCA • Personal traits in management. • HIV and AIDS Basic Information. • Teaching or Educating pupils about HIV and AIDS. • What curriculum would serve our interests best on HIV in schools? • Exploring your role as education leaders in influencing how HIV is to be approached in education. Zimbabwe Business Council on AIDS

  3. About the ZBCA • ZBCA is a business Trust formed to scale up the business response to HIV. • HIV is seen not as a people health threat but as a threat to business health. • We provide technical support to business leadership on how to strategically position business to respond to the HIV pandemic. • The key output of the business response to HIV is business’s viability and sustainability. Zimbabwe Business Council on AIDS

  4. What is your interest in HIV in Education? Plenary discussion: Key questions: • Do you want knowledge about HIV and AIDS or do you want to know about how to handle issues relating to HIV and AIDS? • Do you want students to know about HIV and AIDS or do you want students to mitigate the effects of HIV and AIDS? Zimbabwe Business Council on AIDS

  5. Zimbabwe Business Council on AIDS

  6. Personal Expectations: • What drives you in what you do? • How consistent is what you are doing now with your main driver? Reflection moment Plenary: What is your defining driver? Zimbabwe Business Council on AIDS

  7. Region's HIV and AIDS Overview:

  8. Trends in new HIV infections in Adults in Zimbabwe

  9. Zim Decline

  10. HIV Prevalence in Zimbabwe 2009

  11. HIV Prevalence by Age HIV in Zimbabwe Age 2005-06 ZDHS – CSO and Macro International

  12. National HIV Estimates 2007 HIV in Zimbabwe

  13. HIV Prevalence and Number of Lifetime Partners HIV in Zimbabwe Percent HIV- positive Too few cases 2005-06 ZDHS – CSO and Macro International

  14. HIV Prevalence among Young People HIV in Zimbabwe Percent HIV- positive 2005-06 ZDHS – CSO and Macro International

  15. The ‘Highway of HIV Transmission’ • Multiple Concurrent • Partnerships • Combined with: • Low risk perceptionin long-term relationships • Low condom usein long-term relations • Low levels of male • circumcision Serial casual relations “Dry sex”? Early debut Sex workers PTCT STIs (HSV-2) Cross-generational relations Underlying vulnerability factors: Gender imbalances Stigma Mobility 16

  16. Transmission of HIV

  17. The progression of HIV to AIDS • HIV infects some cells (CD4 and macrophages) initially • HIV then uses human cells to make more viral particles • Virus then kills host cell • The body’s immune system then attacks the virus • Virus numbers increase and eventually overwhelm the immune system • Secondary infections then occur

  18. Progression of HIV • STAGE 1-Asymptomatic (100% Performance capacity) • STAGE 2-mild disease. skin infections, recurrent coughs, loss of weight, herpes zoster (100% Performance capacity) • STAGE 3-advanced disease- Pulmonary TB, Meningitis, chronic diarrhea, oral Candida ( thrush), etc (50% Performance capacity) • STAGE 4- Severe disease, severe loss of weight, Extra pulmonary TB, Kaposi sarcoma (0% Performance capacity)

  19. CD4 count /WHO stage

  20. WAY Forward HIV Prevention B Mutual Marital Monogamy A Abstinence Correct Consistent Condoms C People are free to move from one Boat to another at will depending on circumstances

  21. HIV Treatment!

  22. Other related interventions • Care – infected and affected. • Oprhan and vulnerable children. Zimbabwe Business Council on AIDS

  23. Responsive intervention: • Know your status - HTC. • Provide support structure: • Awareness. • Infection prevention methods. • Counseling. • Diagnostics. • Treatment. • Care and support. • Focus on wellness. • Monitor, evaluate and report. Zimbabwe Business Council on AIDS

  24. Life of a balloon: Group Activity: Design the best balloon. Lessons: • The balloon has no life of its own. • You give it life. • The process of giving life in deliberate and replicable. • The balloon has to know what is being done on its behalf – information documentation – database. • Does your balloon remain the best – monitoring, evaluation and reporting. Zimbabwe Business Council on AIDS

  25. Strategic vs Activity response. • Activity – isolated event which is complete in itself. • Strategic – purposeful events to achieve certain intended goals. Strategic events have to be measured, monitored and evaluated: • Inputs • Outputs • Outcomes • Short term • Medium term • Long term • Impact Zimbabwe Business Council on AIDS

  26. Example of strategic response. Zimbabwe Business Council on AIDS

  27. Why teach HIV and AIDS? Plenary discussion: Focus on the outcomes and impact. Zimbabwe Business Council on AIDS

  28. What curriculum do we need? • Doing things rights Or • Doing the right things? Zimbabwe Business Council on AIDS

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