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Gone are the days when HIV/AIDS was a thing of the past. Whether positive or negative, everybody if affected by it. One thing that has made it easier though, is educating people about it. Whether on television, radio, or the internet, there are always programmes dedicated at educating people about the virus.
Lately, employers have made it easy for employees to not ‘shy-away’ from the issues surrounding the virus. They organize for workshops to be held during working hours because they also realize that one can never have enough information on anything. However, the statistics are constantly rising sky high. Taking ‘sick-leave’ is something which happens daily nowadays. Many employees have either died or are still suffering from this deadly virus.
No matter how much people are being educated about the virus, some are (and probably always) ignorant.
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It sad to hear that there are still people who don’t believe that it exists and continue with their promiscuous ways, and others still discriminate those that are infected. This happens a lot in the workplace and office gossip makes it worse. Employees spend most of their time in the workplace and being discriminated against, can surely make one’s life ‘a living hell’.
One of the contributing factors to AIDS in the workplace is office romance. Colleagues spend most of their time with each other. This, by no surprise, creates sparks and attractions; this is when affairs begin. During such affairs, the participants forget about the virus and the fact that some of them are in ‘serious’ relationships, even married.
Employees should be tested on a voluntary basis, at a company’s expense, and should be encouraged to disclose their HIV status in confidence to the employer. A good leader leads by example, so the employer should do the same. The education sessions on HIV/AIDS will assist employees on how to handle other employees who may be involved in an accident causing bleeding. Such situations will help minimise the chances of infecting other people.
So, whether at home or in the workplace, HIV/AIDS infected people should be treated with care and not discriminated against. They can still live long, healthy and positive lives. Being infected with HIV/AIDS does not make them any less human. In the workplace environment, they still have the ability to produce effective results as the negative employees, sometimes even better.
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