A Toolkit for Workplace HIV Health & Wellness Programming in the ...

Your workplace HIV and Wellness Programme should not be viewed as a sole vehicle for
providing health care to employees and health information to their community-based
friends and families. Instead it is best viewed as an extension of the community-based
health programmes, ensuring that private public linkages between the health services, the
local communities and the tourism private sector is established and the strengths of each
partnering unit is taken advantage of.
In other words the workplace programme should not be at one physical workplace location,
but should be a virtual unit that is essentially part of a health service system that promotes
comprehensiveness of care to the working population in ways that:
SECTION 3: TAKING ACTION – BUILDING A FOUNDATION FOR MAINSTREAMING
1. Promote access to needed services during working hours while avoiding negative
consequences on productivity that would otherwise result from time lost due to
health seeking
2. Create greater awareness of the risk of chronic ill health and HIV due to workrelated
factors and empower to reduce their vulnerabilities and avoid adverse
effects of work in the tourism sector through behaviour change
Such linkages /extension into the community and health sector include:
! Service provision by existing community nurses
! VCT
! Clinic sessions and general health checks and referral services
! Health promotion services: fitness, nutrition and exercise
! Counselling
Below is a schematic representation of the possible private, community and
government linkages between the components of a HIV and wellness model
driven by the tourism sector and community based organisations.
42 A Toolkit for Workplace HIV Health & Wellness Programming in the Tourism Sector