Public Service in South Africa at a High Risk of Contracting AIDS

The survey also concluded that there is a greater need for HIV/AIDS training, education and awareness programmes. The survey identified their perceptions on issues like precaution, whether they believed HIV/AIDS could be cured, and whether infection was preventable. The high risk groups have to be introduced to awareness programmes and monitoring their outcome in order to lessen the impact of HIV/AIDS on the public service. About one third of departments had no policies or programmes on the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections, and HIV/AIDS infection control.