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| Title: | Smokescreen or opening a can of worms? Workplace HIV/AIDS peer education and social protection in South Africa |
| Author: | Dickinson, David |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Periodical: | African Studies |
| Volume: | 65 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Period: | December |
| Pages: | 321-342 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | social and economic rights work environment AIDS Labor and Employment Health and Nutrition Education and Oral Traditions |
| External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00020180601035716 |
| Abstract: | Social protection comprises a range of rights and responsibilities - such as income security, a safe work environment, access to training and maintaining the organizational rights of workers - that affords security to workers and their dependants. The AIDS pandemic has important implications for social protection in South Africa. Private companies have responded to HIV/AIDS by, amongst others, 'shifting the burden' onto households and the State. This can be seen in the move towards atypical labour and the cutting of benefit levels. Many South African companies have recognized a need for peer education within company responses to HIV/AIDS. Peer educators form a 'frontline' of advice and support for workers. Drawing on research carried out in 2005 in five large South African companies, this paper assesses the activities of workplace peer educators, arguing that companies may be engaging in shifting the burden of HIV/AIDS, but that peer education is not a smokescreen for this. On the contrary, the activity of peer educators may come to act as a countervailing force, especially around issues of general wellness and, possibly, the re-inclusion of atypical employees within structures of social protection. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
