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HIV/AIDS and Employment: Protecting Young People and Involving Them in
Work-Related Solutions
Education Development Center’s Health & Human Development
Programs
Wendy Santis, M.S.YES/Mexico 2004
Discussion Topics• The HIV/AIDS Epidemic: What is it doing?
Where is it going?
• Addressing HIV/AIDS in the workplace
• Roles young people can play in responding to the HIV/AIDS crisis
• How to create sustainable livelihoods
Global estimatesfor adults and children • 40 million people living with
HIV/AIDS in 2003• 5 million new HIV infections in
2003
• 3 million deaths from HIV/AIDS in 2003
• 2.5 million young people infected in 2003
The Interest of EDC/HHD: Youth Livelihoods and HIV/AIDS: The
Connection• Poverty heightens HIV/AIDS vulnerability for
young people• Infected youth face harsher economic realities• HIV increases economic problems for youth from
AIDS-affected families• Girls and young women are more vulnerable to
the economic factors that fuel the spread of the epidemic
• Unemployed youth are more vulnerable to migration and engage in risky sex
Roles young people can play in responding to the HIV/AIDS crisis
• Peer educators in NGOs• School-based health prevention specialists• Activists and advocates for more action• Counselors in clinics • Researchers and sales representatives in
pharmaceuticals• Providers of care and services to the sick• Creators of alternative services to educate
orphans
Case study #1Center for the Study of AIDS
South Africa
• Volunteer program involving youth in HIV/AIDS work
• Peer counseling, outreach, prevention education, research, and policy
• Graduates of the program have found paid HIV/AIDS work
Case study #2YES/Kenya
• Assisting young people to access credit so they can start their own businesses
• Using theater, puppetry and poetry to disseminate information on HIV/AIDS
Recommendations• Identify and develop opportunities in HIV/AIDS work• Create awareness of opportunities• Provide skills training and mentoring• Train youth in business skills and provide access to
financial services• Develop vocational education and job training
programs• Provide training in enterprise development and
business development services• Increase access to financial services• Link policy and programs: governments and private
sector