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HIV/AIDS has had an impact on production costs. Approximately 25% of retailers reported that HIV/AIDS has had a negative impact on their profits. The impact of HIV/AIDS on the building and construction, motor trade and wholesale sectors rated somewhere between that of the high-risk manufacturing and lower-risk retail sectors.
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To reduce the economic impact of HIV/AIDS, some companies provide their workforces in such countries with comprehensive HIV services that include counseling and testing, and ART. For example, mining companies in South Africa (where nearly 20% of the working-age population is HIV-positive) provide HIV services to their workforces.
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Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS in South Africa Figure 1 gives a graphic and structural view of how the macro-economy is affected by the HIV pandemic. This framework also represents theoretical analysis that this paper will follow to get a better understanding of the impact of the disease on the South African economy.
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The Impact of HIV/AIDS on the South African Economy: A Review of Current Evidence1 Booysen, F. le R., Geldenhuys, J.P. & Marinkov, M. Department of Economics University of the Free State Bloemfontein, South Africa Paper prepared for TIPS/DPRU conference on 'The Challenge of Growth and Poverty: The
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PIP: Miners in South Africa are now more at risk of contracting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) than of being in a mining accident. Some epidemiologists predict that the mines could be experiencing 12,000-40,000 deaths related to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) by 2010. In 1986, HIV infection among mineworkers was 1/3500.
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HIV and AIDS: The Impact on Children in South Africa 5 UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre Figure 5 illustrates the impact of the epidemic on childhood mortality (per 1,000) in the nine provinces. In the most severely affected province, KwaZulu-Natal, the child mortality rate is expected to exceed 140 per 1,000, more than double the rate in the ...
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HIV/AIDS imposes a significant psychological burden. PLHIV often suffer from depression and anxiety as they adjust to the impact of the HIV diagnosis and face the difficulties of living with a chronic illness. Living with HIV is challenging as it is associated with a number of significant and recurrent stressors including physical pain, side ...
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South Africa is one of the countries with the fastest growing incidents of HIV/AIDS in the world. More people are living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa than in any other country in the world. Just in the past decade, the life expectancy in South Africa has dropped from 67 to 43 years. The social and economic impact of the disease is hard to ...
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HIV/AIDS has affected the mining sector in South Africa, as well as to assess this sector's awareness and response to the epidemic. A questionnaire was sent to 977 operating mines, quarries and mineral processing plants. A response rate of 10.8% was achieved. The survey shows that the impact of HIV/AIDS on the mining sector has been severe.
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The rate of people who live with HIV/AIDS in South Africa is very high, over 7 million people live with HIV/AIDS. However, the majority of them live a healthy life because the government is providing treatment for them.. What is HIV/AIDS? HIV – Human Immunodeficiency virus AIDS – is a collection of diseases that is acquired from HIV once the immune system is …
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The HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa remains a long-term development challenge for the region. Nearly 12 million African children have been orphaned as a result of the disease, and 22.5 million people in Africa 61 percent of them women live with HIV.
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In South Africa, for example, around 60% of the mining workforce is aged between 30 and 44 years; in 15 years this is predicted to fall to 10% (R Elias, University of Botswana, personal communication, 2000) (figure). In the South African healthcare …
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The impact of HIV/AIDS on the labour market in South Africa 3 and scope of the epidemic in other sub-populations (men, non-pregnant women, children, older people, and population groups other than Africans), as well as other socio-economic categories not covered in the Antenatal Clinic data. There are also
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With 1032 participants from the mining, manufacturing, building & construction, trade, transport and financial services sectors, it is the largest survey on the economic impact of HIV / AIDS in South Africa to date. The survey results suggest that the mining sector, followed by the manufacturing and transport sectors, are the worst affected ...
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HIV/AIDS: Understanding the impact it has on your company. In South Africa, some 40% of South African manufacturing companies surveyed reported a reduction in profits due to HIV/AIDS. More than half reported lower productivity and increased levels of absenteeism. Losses to the manufacturing sector were due mainly to the effects of increased ...
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HIV disease and AIDS will likely adversely affect mining productivity through increased absenteeism and the mortality of miners. This will be accompanied by rising expenditures in recruitment, the processing and training of new miners, and health care, death, funeral, and other benefits related to the death of miners. Data suggest that 10-20% ...
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Southern Africa is particularly affected by HIV/AIDS. The disease already has a major impact in the economies in the region and especially on the mining sector, which is a key business driver. Based on southern African experience, the Guide for the mining sector provides practical advice and management guidance that will help companies implement intervention strategies.
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HIV also has an impact on the labour force of mining by having an increase in mortality, for example around 60% of the mining workforce is aged between 30 and 44 years; in 15 years this is predicted to fall to 10% [ 4] . This shows that the labour force for mining is being affected due to deaths related to AIDS.
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The macroeconomic effects of HIV/AIDS in Africa are substantial, and policies for dealing with them may be controversial—one is whether expensive antiretroviral drugs should be targeted at economically productive groups of people. The authors review the evidence and consider how economic theory can contribute to our response to the pandemic Three million …
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Overview of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the health workforce This paper addresses one of the key global health challenges today, especially in the poorest countries: the influence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the health workforce. First, we provide an overview of the impact of HIV/AIDS on health systems and how this influences demand and supply
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Abstract Based on the BER's 2005 survey1, this paper provides a snapshot view of the nature and the extent of the impact of HIV/AIDS on selected economic sectors in South Africa, as well as their response to the epidemic. Whereas the focus of most of the previous surveys has been on "evaluating workplace responses", this study also considers the economic impact of …
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BibTeX @MISC{South_impactof, author = {Undp South and East Asia Hiv and Development Programme (seahiv and Leon Swartz and Dikeledi Nkau and Leon Swartz and Dikeledi Nkau}, title = {IMPACT OF HIV/AIDS ON THE MINING SECTOR, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON SOUTHERN AFRICAN MIGRANT WORKERS}, year = {}}
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