| Summary: | The impact of HIV and AIDS has threatened to destroy the education sector in South Africa.
This qualitative study set out to investigate the psychosocial problems and needs of educators
infected with HIV and/or affected by HIV and AIDS in Johannesburg Inner City schools. The
study explores and describes the need to develop and implement a comprehensive and
holistic treatment, care and support programme for educators infected with HIV and/or
affected by HIV and AIDS. This study also reviews HIV/AIDS policies and programmes
implemented by the Department of Education to indicate that these interventions are not
effective in addressing the problems and needs of these educators. Therefore, the study
contends that the Department of Education should revise and reformulate these HIV/AIDS
policies and programmes to cater for the needs of educators infected with HIV and/or
affected by HIV and AIDS. Ten educators infected with HIV and/or affected by HIV and
AIDS from two selected Johannesburg Inner City schools participated in this study.
Phenomenological strategies and in-depth interviews were used to capture day-to-day
personal life experiences of these educators. The findings of the study reveal that there is a
need for an urgent response by the Department of Education to develop and implement
treatment, care and support programmes for educators infected with HIV and/or affected by
HIV and AIDS. === Sociology === M.A. (Social Behaviour Studies in HIV/AIDS)
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