What role do people living with HIV/AIDS play in alleviating the impact of HIV/AIDS?
People living with HIV/AIDS can promote a positive image of people affected by the disease in order to eliminate prejudice, isolation, stigmatization and discrimination associated with AIDS. In addition, the community of people living with HIV/AIDS should be supported for building capacity to contribute effectively as equal partners to the response. They can help with peer counselling, education and treatment. They can be meaningfully included in all national and international HIV/AIDS policy-making bodies. There is a need to inform, mobilize, and sensitize communities to produce actions that can strengthen the lives of persons living with HIV/AIDS, in addition to providing unrestricted protection to their human rights. What are the rules of HIV/AIDS at the workplace? HIV/AIDS is a workplace issue because it affects labour and productivity due of loss of skills, costs of hiring and retraining, health and death benefits, and the potential of workplace conflict. If a worker has HIV infec
