Marseille 2007
| Abstract #228 - Capacity of public servants to implement HIV and AIDS workplace programmes in South Africa | ||||
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Session: 26.48: Posters B (Poster) on Tuesday in Chaired by Authors: Presenting Author: Prof Geoffrey Setswe - Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa |
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| Aim: The aim of the study was to assess the capacity of the public servants at various levels with regard to implementation of HIV and AIDS workplace programmes. | ||||
| Method / Issue: Both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies were used to conduct the capacity audit. Quantitative data were collected from 1,080 public servants in 40 of the 147 provincial and national government departments in South Africa. About 39% of respondents were managers or EAP/AIDS coordinators, while 61% were administrative officers, clerks or general workers. Qualitative data were obtained from 22 Focus Group Discussions with less than 12 participants each in provincial and national departments. Quantitative data were analyzed using the SPSS software while qualitative data were analyzed using content analysis. | ||||
| Results / Comments: The HIV and AIDS capacity building initiatives have had a good impact on the capacity of public servants to implement HIV and AIDS workplace programmes. Approximately 47.1% of public servants said that they had the necessary capacity to implement the HIV and AIDS programme while 31.2% of public servants said they did not have the necessary capacity to implement the AIDS programme. Although 21.7% of respondents said that they did not know if they had the capacity to implement the AIDS programme there is a difference of 15.9%. The necessary resources required by public servants to implement the HIV and AIDS programme included a budget by 35.5%, staff by 0.8% and other resources by 0.7%. It was disappointing that 63% of respondents did not indicate what resources they required to implement the HIV and AIDS programme and so few said they needed staff and other resources to implement a workplace HIV and AIDS programme. | ||||
| Discussion: Public servants have low confidence in the level, quality and utilization of workplace HIV/AIDS programmes. The level, quality and utilization of workplace HIV/AIDS programmes in the public service needs to be improved dramatically. This has negative implications for the use of workplace HIV/AIDS programmes for the people they are intended to service. | ||||
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