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Department of Education’s HIV/AIDS Strategy

The presentation highlights the Education Department's strategies, including curriculum-based programs, support for learners, workplace policies, and partnerships with organizations to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic effectively.

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Department of Education’s HIV/AIDS Strategy

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  1. Department of Education’s HIV/AIDS Strategy Presentation to the Education Portfolio Committee 28 August 2001

  2. Background • Core business is to educate, build skills and inculcate values necessary for a vibrant democratic SA • Response to HIV/AIDS is based on what we are best placed to do • The opportunity to turn epidemic around • We have a captive audience • Priority of all priorities

  3. Programme 1 • Two pronged approach • HIV/AIDS and the Education system • HIV/AIDS and the beneficiaries/people within the system

  4. HIV/AIDS & the System • Need to protect the system to ensure continued supply and demand of education • Develop tools and planning models to facilitate analysis and understanding of the impact • Align legislation, policies, strategies • Improve monitoring and evaluation systems • Establish dedicated capacity to deal with HIV/AIDS – HIV/AIDS Unit, strengthen HIV/AIDS management at national and provincial levels

  5. HIV/AIDS & the curriculum • “HIV/AIDS and Life skills” is curriculum policy as per new curriculum 2005, implemented in Grade 1-9 • Resume of Instructional programmes in public schools Report 550 (NATED 550) provides for Guidance, Health Education as compulsory offerings from Grade 10-12 • Government’s conditional grant to address HIV/AIDS within the curriculum as part of an integrated approach with Depts. Of Health and Social Development • All provincial DoEs have funded business plans to implement this programme

  6. HIV/AIDS & curriculum • Strengthen implementation of Life skills and HIV/AIDS programme within curriculum • Integrate HIV/AIDS across the curriculum and provide guidelines for educators • Develop programmes for Early Childhood Education and Learners with special needs • Work with SAUVCA to develop and implement HIV/AIDS programmes in Higher Education institutions • Support the inclusion of HIV/AIDS into pre-service training by tertiary institutions

  7. HIV/AIDS and learners • Establish an identification and support system for learners in distress &/ orphaned • Facilitate access to services through the integrated approach • Communicate SA schools Act and HIV/AIDS policy and their application to teachers • Develop guidelines for educators to assist with this • Promote school as a center of support and hope for communities

  8. HIV/AIDS at work • HIV/AIDS policy for CS Educators • HIV/AIDS policy for Public Servants • Workplace programme developed and adapted for schools as a workplace • Programme includes preventive & promotive education, care, support, counseling & management training • Involvement of educators living with HIV/AIDS

  9. Progress • All nine provinces are implementing the curriculum-based HIV/AIDS programme • Implementation of this programme needs to be strengthened • Enforcement of national policies e.g teacher-learner sexual relations, HIV/AIDS,rights of learners under Schools Act. • Workplace policy and programme guideline • Higher Education programme developed and implementation to begin

  10. Other initiatives • Peer education to strengthen curriculum based initiatives • Inclusion of Sexuality and Life skills Education into sports and ball games • Strengthening of partnerships with CBOs, NGOs and other government Departments

  11. Conclusion • HIV/AIDS dictates non-traditional, “out of the box” responses • Need to attack from all angles • Integrated, comprehensive approach seems to be the way forward

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