HIV/AIDS and Education: a study on how a selection of school governing bodies in Mpumalanga understand,respond to and implement legislation and policies on HIV/AIDS |
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| Institution: | 1. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Instituto Argentino de Oceanografía, Florida 4750, B8000FWB Bahía Blanca, Argentina;2. Deutsches Zentrum für Marine Biodiversitätforschung, Senckenberg am Meer, Südstrand 44, 26382 Wilhelmshaven, Germany;3. University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Faculty of Sciences, Valrose Parc, 06108 Nice Cedex 2, France;4. Department of Chemistry, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Av. Alem 1253, B8000CPB Bahía Blanca, Argentina;5. Wetland Dynamics, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Fahrenheitstr. 6, 28359 Bremen, Germany;1. State Key Laboratory on Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China;2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;1. Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota;2. Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota;3. Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota;4. Center for MS and Autoimmune Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota;5. Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota;6. Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota;1. Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA;2. Department of Statistics, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel;3. Research Institute for Health Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand;4. Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA;5. Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg, FL, USA;1. Key Lab of Marine Environmental Science and Ecology, Ministry of Education, College of Environment Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China;2. Environmental Protection Science Research Institute of Hunan Province, Changsha 410000, China |
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| Abstract: | Very little research has been done in South Africa on HIV/AIDS and education. This article is a small attempt to plug the gap. The purpose of the research is to investigate the legal and policy provisions and implications regarding HIV/AIDS for rural and township schools in the Mpumalanga district of South Africa. It seeks to answer three questions: (1) What is the status of policy and legislation on HIV/AIDS and Education in South Africa? (2) How do schools understand, respond to and manage issues of law and policy regarding HIV/AIDS? (3) What are the possible areas of conflict between legal and policy provisions and educational practices and behaviours? After examining the different laws relating to HIV/AIDS and education in South Africa a case study approach is used to explore the research questions in a number of rural and township schools. The findings highlighted a general ignorance of basic human rights issues, the right to confidentiality, the right to security from discrimination if it is known that a teacher or a pupil is HIV positive, the right to privacy and the right, under certain circumstances, to disclosure. The findings also reveal a distance between policy and practice so that schools need to develop vigilance with respect to any legal challenges that they might face at a local level. The findings also show that governing bodies should be made aware of the general legal issues surrounding the individual and HIV/AIDS before they can introduce fair and balanced policies. |
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