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Mining Industry on the West Coast of South Africa The Bench Marks Foundation 2009 . ii Policy Gap 4 ... HIV/AIDS, measurement of development needs of communities, etc. The first phase of this SADC research project, completed and launched in June 2008, involved the mining activities in Malawi (uranium), South Africa (coal, gold, platinum and ...
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In a study of 302 union shop stewards from firms representing 10 different sectors, 15% reported that their union discussed HIV/AIDS issues with the employer, 52% reported an existing HIV/AIDS workplace policy, and only 15% reported that they had received a copy of the policy [25].
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HIV disease and AIDS will likely adversely affect mining productivity through increased absenteeism and the mortality of miners. This will be accompanied by rising expenditures in recruitment, the processing and training of new miners, and health care, death, funeral, and other benefits related to the death of miners.
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Some mining companies in South Africa are implementing HIV/AIDS programs that encourage workers to receive HIV tests, provide treatment to workers and distribute condoms, Reuters reports. Gold...
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During the 1990s, most major mining companies introduced HIV and Aids programmes that included elements such as awareness campaigns, training peer educators and nurse counsellors, free condom...
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AFSA aims to address the structural and social drivers of HIV, raise awareness of sexually transmitted diseases and build resilience in communities. The organization understands that the HIV epidemic in South Africa is rooted in environmental, cultural, socio-economic and political conditions.
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Working collaboratively with industry, government and civil society partners, this program seeks to add new knowledge and practices to the enable the oil, gas and mining industries to fulfill their potential to meaningfully contribute to positive and inclusive development outcomes for men and women in the region.
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work around the all-male hostels fuels the co-epidemic of tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. In Carltonville, a mining town near Johannesburg, 52% of migrant women were workers and more than two-thirds of these were HIV positive. ... tuberculosis challenges at home but are also increasingly engaged in extractive industry investments in other ...
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Tackling HIV/AIDS • Each year, the diamond industry funds two African graduates studying for Masters Degrees in public health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, ... • The diamond mining industry is the largest single employer in Botswana after the government • 25% of employment in Botswana is directly or indirectly linked to ...
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South Africa 's labor supply is negatively affected by incidences of HIV / AIDS because of increased mortality and morbidity. AIDS decreases fertility rates and deaths from the disease ultimately lowers the population and labor force. Workers in key sectors of the economy such as mining and healthcare have been particularly affected.
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In a company with 1907 employees comprising 2 managers, 5 supervisors, 200 skilled workers, and 1700 unskilled workers and with an overall HIV-positive rate of 25%, on an annual wage bill of R7.5...
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This paper examines whether participation in mining in a bordering country affects HIV infection rate. A job in the mines means leaving for long periods away from their families and living in an area with an active industry. This creates potential incentives for multiple, concurrent partnerships.
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Most of the cases of HIV / AIDS in West Papua can be traced back to the commercial industry, which has sprung up around logging and mining projects. A study in 2001 found that more than a quarter of prostitutes tested were HIV positive. Papuan men, drawn to these industries for work, have now taken HIV / AIDS back to their villages.
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Bongani, 28, a miner who has AIDS, chats with his wife and child in Carltonville outside Johanneburg June 29, 2007. From Africa to Russia, from Peru to China, mining companies face a problem: the ...
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Since 2014, the mining industry has an excellent HIV/AIDS (and TB) reporting system and the results are utilised for monitoring progress in reducing new HIV (and TB) infections in the industry. Unfortunately, HIV continues to dominate the modern healthcare agenda and business and government must work together to successfully tackle these epidemics.
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The South African mining industry has been a major contributor to the economy of the surrounding countries of the Southern African Development Community ... design interventions for HIV/AIDS and TB control, to correctly targeted and allocate the appropriate resources for Mozambican miners in South Africa.
Get price"There's absolutely no way you can get HIV from a pool or a shower casual contact using the same facilities," said David Little, director of South Alabama CARES, an AIDS education and outreach ...
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This report strives to highlight how and to what extent HIV/AIDS has affected the mining sector in South Africa, as well as to assess this sector's awareness and response to the epidemic. A questionnaire was sent to 977 operating mines, quarries and mineral processing plants. A response rate of 10.8% was achieved.
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The response to AIDS and its co-travelers TB and malaria, is thus going to be a long haul. We don't need the short-term horizons of politicians posturing at the UN. What we need is a long-term horizon, similar to that which drives the mining and oil industries, whose workers and businesses are still very much at risk of HIV.
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Efforts of mine medical services to control TB in the mines have had limited impact. 62 Although the mining industry has made substantial progress in developing HIV and AIDS programmes for miners, 74 there is little evidence of declining HIV rates.
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Without question, there is a higher percentage of HIV and AIDS in the black population in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last year looked at data from ...
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Under the leadership of the World Bank, the District Department of Health and mining companies in the West Rand District have developed a draft compact aimed at supporting the implementation of two priority interventions: active TB case finding, and early effective TB diagnosis.
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Protecting South Africa's elderly. Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) estimates the mid-year population 2020 at 59,62 million in South Africa. Around 51,1% (approximately 30,5 million) of the population is , while 5,43 million people are aged 60 and over. Demography gives us an awareness of the fact that we live in increasingly aging ...
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At a secondary level there is the Protection from Smoking (Public Health) (Control of Tobacco) Regulations S.I.264 of 2002 that prohibits smoking in enclosed public places including workplaces and the Labour Relations (HIV and AIDS) regulations S.I.202 of 1998 which prohibits discrimination on the ground of AIDS/HIV status, including:
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The mining industry is among southern Africa's largest employers, particularly in the Republic of South Africa, where one of every ten ... Dye C: Antiretroviral drugs for tuberculosis control in the era of HIV/AIDS. Science. 2003, 301 (5639): 1535-1537. CAS Article PubMed Google Scholar Download references. Author information. Authors and ...
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In the Democratic Republic of the Congo [DRC], one of the poorest countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, 450,000 people are infected with HIV/AIDS, leaving 320,000 orphans, age seventeen and younger, behind (Avert, n.d.). HIV/AIDS is not new in the DRC; in fact, this is where the plague originated in the 1970's (Avert, n.d.).
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In South Africa, HIV/AIDS denialism had a significant impact on public health policy from 1999 to 2008, during the presidency of Thabo Mbeki.Mbeki criticized the scientific consensus that HIV does cause AIDS beginning shortly after his election to the presidency. In 2000, he organized a Presidential Advisory Panel regarding HIV/AIDS including several scientists who denied that HIV caused AIDS.
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The motivation for this paper is to inform the selection of future policy directions for tackling HIV/AIDS in Russia. The Russian Federation has more people living with HIV/AIDS than any other country in Europe, and nearly 70% of the known infections in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The epidemic is particularly young, with 80% of those infected aged less than thirty, and no Russian region ...
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The Mining Department is responsible for the mining and minerals industry. Laws promulgated in this respect are the Mines and Minerals Act No, 4 of 2011, Diamond Act No. 3 of 2011, Explosives Act, Mines and machinery regulations, and Mines and Quarries (safety) Regulations. ... and also due to a high degree of HIV/AIDS among its population ...
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The South African construction industry has not responded effectively to address the high HIV-prevalence rate within its workforce. The Western Cape construction industry is the least responsive. No formal studies have examined how the construction industry's unresponsiveness to the pandemic has impacted Eskom's capital construction projects ...
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A number of firms in the United States have reported that an annual cost of US $3,500 - 6,000 for each employee with HIV/AIDS. Additionally, labour supply and available skills is also reduced. Indirect costs, such as strained relations between workers and management. Intangible costs, such as damage to corporate reputations.
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This paper examines the impact of HIV/AIDS on the productive labour force and management responses. It forms part of the findings of data gathered in 2001 in the mining industry in Zimbabwe, to examine factors affecting management responses to HIV/AIDS in the mine sites. Zimbabwe is a country with a complex historical legacy of mine labour.
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South Africa's mining sector is particularly exposed to the spread of Covid-19. According to the Minerals Council of South Africa, the industry employs a workforce numbering almost 420,000, many of whom are underground on any given day. Some mines have thousands of men and women underground, descending into the depths in crowded "cages".
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Health experts in the mining industry have launched an intensive campaign to return the industry's focus to tuberculosis (TB), HIV and noncommunicable diseases. Aspects of these programmes have...
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The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted health services across South Africa, including life-saving treatment for tuberculosis (TB), HIV and non-communicable diseases that continue to plague the ...
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The SA mining industry enters the HIV/AIDS war zone 28 Meditari Accountancy Research Vol. 10 2002 : 25-51 Every day an average of 15 000 people become infected with HIV (UNAIDS 2000a). More than 95% of the new HIV infections occur in developing countries (UNAIDS 2000a). Of the 15 000 persons that are infected daily, approximately
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We have developed a Sustainable Mining Plan that will foster innovation and deliver step change results across the entire mining value chain, from mineral discovery right through to marketing. Our Sustainable Mining Plan is designed specifically to drive business efficiencies, resilience and agility. It will ensure that we deliver outstanding ...
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Since 2014, the mining industry has an excellent HIV/AIDS (and TB) reporting system and the results are utilised for monitoring progress in reducing new HIV (and TB) infections in the industry. Unfortunately, HIV continues to dominate the modern healthcare agenda and business and government must work together to successfully tackle these epidemics.
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The SA mining industry enters the HIV/AIDS war zone The SA mining industry enters the HIV/AIDS war zone J.R. Davies; D. . de Bruin; M. Deysel; M. Strydom 2002-04-01 00:00:00 The mining sector represents a significant portion of the South African economy. The recent announcement of the proposed black empowerment bill for the mining sector caused share prices to plummet.
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Industry initiatives include HIV wellness programmes to educate employees about HIV/AIDS and its prevention; testing and counselling; and treatment programmes. The coal mining industry was in the forefront of rolling out antiretroviral therapy (ART) to employees. Programmes are audited by government to evaluate improvements.
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