What is HIV and AIDS?

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Time Activity
20 minutes 1. Divide the group into 2 smaller groups.
2. Give each group the case studies below.
3. Ask one group to work out what they would do next if they were
managing that organisation.
4. Ask the other group to decide what they would do if they were staff at the
organisation but had no managerial responsibilities.
20 minutes 5. Bring the group back together and ask each group to feedback.
6. Explore the differences in actions with each group.
Does having responsibility make a difference?
What steps are similar?
Section 9: HIV and AIDS Workplace Policy
Activity 9.4: What would we do?
Activity Outline
Objective: At the end of this activity, participants should be able to understand that
mainstreaming is a process.
Duration/Timing: 50 minutes
Materials/Resources: Case studies.
Does your position in the organisation make a difference to how you
would proceed? E.g. you are responsible for finance so mainstreaming
may be seen as an added expenditure.
10 minutes 7. Summary – management support and buy-in is essential to HIV
mainstreaming. Without it, very little work can be done. Explain that some
organisations will only focus on external mainstreaming – how HIV affects
its projects – but rarely look internally – how does this affect our staff. A
combination of both internal and external mainstreaming is necessary for
changes to happen. There is no point advocating prevention to
beneficiaries and volunteers if staff are unaware of their own risks. Briefly
repeat some of the suggestions put forward and explain mainstreaming is
a process. There are a number of things organisations can do and it will
take time and continued commitment.
(Source: HIV and AIDS Mainstreaming Toolkit, VSO Vietnam, 2008)
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