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The Joint Donor Team HIV/AIDS Workplace Policy

The Joint Donor Team HIV/AIDS Workplace Policy. Why the policy

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The Joint Donor Team HIV/AIDS Workplace Policy

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  1. The Joint Donor Team HIV/AIDS Workplace Policy

  2. Why the policy • Purpose of JDT policy: to establish the principles for how JDT is to handle HIV/AIDS and related issues at the workplace, how JDT can support staff and their close relatives who have been affected and how JDT can help staff and their close relatives by providing information and preventive measures

  3. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). • Breakdown of a body's immune system leading to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). • Vulnerable to infections, which the body could under normal healthy situations fight off • Eventual death. .

  4. No current cure for HIV or AIDS. Available treatment, but the treatment only slows down the progress of breaking down immune system. People on treatment can live for many years. Compliance to treatment for the rest of a person's life is mandatory – otherwise resistance to drugs Only one type of treatment in South Sudan 4

  5. Four major routes of transmission of HIV • Sex with an infected person without using a condom (75-85%) • Contaminated needles • Breast milk • Transmission from an infected mother to her baby at birth (Mother-to-child transmission, MTCT).

  6. Incidence by Modes of HIV Transmission (Sexual) 100 80 60 40 20 0 Swaziland Lesotho Zambia Mozambique Uganda Kenya Percent new infections Injecting drug users Other Partners of clients of female sex workers Clients of female sex workers Men having sex with men Casual heterosexual sex Partners (Casual heterosexual sex) Long Term cohabitating monogamous heterosexual sex (low risk heterosexual sex) Sources: Results from Know your Epidemic project in Southern and East Africa . Reports available http://www.unaidsrstesa.org/hiv-prevention-modes-of-transmission

  7. The window period - time frame between the moment a person becomes infected with HIV until it can be discovered in a test • During the window period the risk of becoming infected with HIV if a person has sex with an infected person is highest. This is because the virus it spreading quickly in the person’s body without any resistance

  8. HIV TRANSMISSION RISKS Half of all transmission Wawer et al, 2005

  9. The HIV virus can not be transmitted through: • Kissing, hugging, shaking hands • Mosquito or insect bites • Coughing or sneezing • Sharing toilets or washing facilities • Using utensils/consuming food or drinks handled by someone who is HIV positive • Urine • Tears

  10. Preventing HIV/AIDS transmission • Condoms • Get tested • Prevention of mother to child transmission • Reduce partners/Faithfulness/Abstinence

  11. The head of the JDT is overall responsible for an appropriate introduction of the policy and its maintenance at the office. • The policy will be implemented through a work team at the office under the leadership of the Head of the JDT.

  12. If disclosure of, or suspected infection • Staff suffering from HIV/AIDS must be able to turn to their workplace regarding issues related to their infection, secure in the knowledge that this will be dealt with in full confidentiality. • They must not be subject to discrimination at the workplace and must be able to continue their jobs at JDT without fear of exclusion or bullying. • HIV/AIDS cannot be used as grounds for changes in work tasks or areas of responsibility, working hours or holidays, or in compensation regulations leading to a change for the worse for the employee, if the latter has not consented to these measures him/herself.

  13. The rights of services and protection under the JDT HIV/AIDS policy are for • All employees of the Joint Donor Office, • One partner (registered at JDT) and • Registered children under the age of 18 years, also registered at JDT.

  14. Sent out staff • The employee must keep JDT informed of changes in family situation that can affect the right to sickness benefits under this policy • The office extends its prevention services such as awareness raising activities and condom distribution to household keepers employed at the JDT compound and to the office's security guards.

  15. Current employment conditions states that costs for prevention services and treatment will be covered if the staff member uses the official recognised clinic in Juba; the Juba Teaching Hospital-HIV clinic. • If the staff member decides to use a foreign source, such as a clinic in a neighbouring country, the JDT cannot cover these costs. • These rights will remain valid even if the staff member decides to terminate his/her contract or if the staff member has his/her contract terminated due to disciplinary measures. • As long as the employee has started treatment before termination of the employment, he/she will be entitled to the benefits stated in the policy until the end of their life.

  16. Implementation • Juba Teaching Hospital-HIV Clinic (Free testing, counselling, condoms, and treatment if in need). • HIV/AIDS workplace team, (the deputy head of operations, one national staff member and one international staff member). • Possible future telephone line • HAWP card and Confidentiality (JDT will not know if a staff member visits the Teaching Hospital)

  17. Next steps: • Questionnaires • Interviews • Action plan (June to November)

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