ABSTRACT
The development of training and education relating to HIV and AIDS in the workplace remains an issue which many organisations are reluctant to tackle. This is surprising considering the fact that HIV/AIDS within the workplace has such far reaching consequences for both the person living with HIV or AIDS, their colleagues and the organisation. There are then a number of issues which education and training relating to HIV/AIDS must include: Medical Facts; Legal Facts; Organisational Information and Individual Reasons. The Centre for AIDS and Employment Research (CAER) research programme collected a comprehensive set of data relating to attitudes, values and definitions of HIV and AIDS as a workplace issue, both from a managerial and a workforce perspective. Throughout this chapter, the implications of the attitudes and responses which emerged from the research programme are appraised and their relevance to the debate concerning responsibility for information provision is considered.
