By Tamukong J
Produced by: HIV/AIDS Impact on Education Clearing house (2004)
This paper examines the literature on how HIV/AIDS has impacted teachers and other education personnel in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d`Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria and Senegal. It focuses on the areas of:
- Prevalence
- Impact on professional lives of teachers
- Impact of teacher infection on schools
- Impact of teacher infection on students
- Infection of adminsitrative personnel
- Responses from teachers
- And responses from management.
Recommendations have been made for further research to generate statistics on the infection rates among teachers and to explore issues surrounding their sexuality. In the area of policy and practice, the authorities need to factor in projected deaths and retirements in human resource planning, generate a workplace policy to care for infected and affected personnel and formalise HIV/AIDS education throughout teacher training colleges and school systems.
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