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Table 10.39 Details of Health Promotion and HIV/AIDS Programmes (continued)
Question Yes No Details if Yes
Has the Department introduced an Employee X The key elements of the HIV Prevention
Assistance or Health Promotion Programme
Programme are:
for your employees? If so, indicate the key
• HIV and AIDS workplace programmes
elements/services of this programme
• Mass awareness
• Management of occupational
transmission
• Prevention of mother-to-child
transmission
• Prevention of opportunistic infections
• Utilisation of all awareness opportunities
(e.g. National Health Days, etc)
• Innovative programmes/projects
• Programmes/projects that focus on
abstinence and faithfulness
Key elements of the Health Promotion
Programmes are:
• Counselling
• Education, training and development
• Management of sexually-transmitted
infections
• Health promotion through physical
training, sport and recreation
Has the Department established a committee
X The HIV and AIDS Advisory Board of the
(or committees) as contemplated in Part VI
Department of Defence was reconstituted
E.5 (e) of Chapter 1 of the Public Service
and started functioning in April 2007. During
Regulations (2001)? If so, please provide the
the year under review, this responsibility was
names of the members of the committee and
the stakeholders that they represent
assumed by all command structures.
Has the Department reviewed its employment X • DOD Directive: Development
policies and practices to ensure that these do
of Department-level policy in the
not unfairly discriminate against employees on
Department of Defence (DOD)
the basis of their HIV status? If so, list the
regarding the management of Human
employment policies/practices so reviewed
Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired
Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Programme.
• DOD Instruction: Department
of Defence (DOD) instruction on
development, promulgation, maintenance
and management of the DOD Human
Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired
Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Programme.
• Joint Defence Publication: Policy,
process and procedures for the
development, promulgation and
maintenance of the DOD HIV and
AIDS Programme.
Has the Department introduced measures X The current DOD instruction provides
to protect HIV-positive employees or
specific guidelines in this regard as well
those perceived to be HIV-positive from
as processes to be followed when such
discrimination? If so, list the key elements of
these measures
discrimination is found or perceived.
Does the Department encourage its employees X During the past 12 months, 72,7% of
to undergo Voluntary Counselling and Testing?
members have indicated that they have had an
If so, list the results that you have achieved
HIV test and 56,5% have requested to have
the tests done.
Has the Department developed measures/ X The DOD HIV and AIDS Monitoring and
indicators to monitor and evaluate the impact
Evaluation Subprogramme was approved for
of its health promotion programme? If so, list
implementation in 2005. This plan includes
these measures/indicators
the monitoring and evaluation of inputs,
processes, outputs, outcomes and impact
through more than 200 established indicators.
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