Impacts Of HIV And AIDS
The emergence of HIV and AIDs in the early 1980s has led to untold public health, socio-economic and demographic challenges. Describe the impact of HIV/AIDs on individuals, family and the community under the following headings
Educational, Economic, Social, Demographic, Psycho-emotional, Religious
ECONOMIC
Countries with high national debts and low GNP such as Mozambique experience greater difficulties in providing the care and support to the infected and affected. HIV/AIDS results in greater number of illness and death especially among the working class. This results in increased cases of absenteeism which results in more work for employees already present required to stand in for their colleagues hence leading to higher overtime expenditure, overworking of the finite workforce which causes exhaustion. In situations where the workers are deceased it results in a loss of skilled workers that are quite difficult to replace and permanent decrease in labour force for a period of time. A drop in quality and quantity of the final product is a corollary of this as well as productivity. The International Labour Organization observed that labour force in 2020 will be an estimated 10-22 percent smaller (about 11.5 million fewer) than it would have been if HIV and AIDS in countries such as Kenya, Malawi and Botswana was not a factor (ILO, 2000). Government income also declines as tax revenues fall and expenditure is focused on dealing with HIV.
African countries require diversification, greater exportation of goods and services and foreign investment to expand their existing economies. However the increased cost of labour due to HIV and AIDS coupled with low profit margins tend to make them undesirable to foreign industries thus limiting their economic growth.
SOCIAL
HIV and AIDS propagate poverty, insecurity and uncertainty. Studies in Botswana show that every income earner is likely to acquire an additional dependent over the next ten years due to AIDS. Households in
Educational, Economic, Social, Demographic, Psycho-emotional, Religious
ECONOMIC
Countries with high national debts and low GNP such as Mozambique experience greater difficulties in providing the care and support to the infected and affected. HIV/AIDS results in greater number of illness and death especially among the working class. This results in increased cases of absenteeism which results in more work for employees already present required to stand in for their colleagues hence leading to higher overtime expenditure, overworking of the finite workforce which causes exhaustion. In situations where the workers are deceased it results in a loss of skilled workers that are quite difficult to replace and permanent decrease in labour force for a period of time. A drop in quality and quantity of the final product is a corollary of this as well as productivity. The International Labour Organization observed that labour force in 2020 will be an estimated 10-22 percent smaller (about 11.5 million fewer) than it would have been if HIV and AIDS in countries such as Kenya, Malawi and Botswana was not a factor (ILO, 2000). Government income also declines as tax revenues fall and expenditure is focused on dealing with HIV.
African countries require diversification, greater exportation of goods and services and foreign investment to expand their existing economies. However the increased cost of labour due to HIV and AIDS coupled with low profit margins tend to make them undesirable to foreign industries thus limiting their economic growth.
SOCIAL
HIV and AIDS propagate poverty, insecurity and uncertainty. Studies in Botswana show that every income earner is likely to acquire an additional dependent over the next ten years due to AIDS. Households in
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