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JOHANNESBURG, 26 January 2010 (PlusNews) – The announcement in late 2009 that the government had approved a new HIV/AIDS policy in the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) was widely welcomed by AIDS and human rights lobbyists as long overdue.

A November 2009 statement by the SANDF noted that the new policy made provision for the “recruitment and selective deployment of HIV-positive members” of the military and complied with a High Court ruling in May 2008, which found the previous policy of excluding HIV-positive people from recruitment and foreign deployment unconstitutional.

The South African Security Forces Union (SASFU) assisted by the AIDS Law Project (ALP), had brought a case to the High Court on behalf of two of its members who were denied employment and deployment opportunities because of their HIV-positive status.

The SANDF’s surgeon general, Lt-Gen Vejaynand Ramlakan, said the military had been in the process of reviewing its HV/AIDS policy long before. He noted, however, that the particulars of the new framework remained classified, although parts of it were “in the public domain” and already being implemented.

“The reason [the new policy] has taken so long is that we’re dealing with the stigma and fears that surround HIV and AIDS,” he told IRIN/PlusNews. “Military people share all the misunderstandings of wider society. We needed to consult very widely with all military commanders and to convince them of the need to change the existing policy, and to prevent any misunderstanding about whether combat readiness would be affected.”

Other southern African defence forces and the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations also had to be consulted, as well as the South African National AIDS Council. The new policy also had to ensure that “the health standards of the SANDF are commensurate with the tasks they have to perform.”

In the past, military policy-makers argued that the tasks armies had to perform took precedence over the individual rights of people living with HIV and AIDS, and that the demands of foreign deployment and combat could jeopardize the health of an HIV-positive soldier and that of his colleagues.

These arguments have carried less weight since antiretroviral (ARV) therapy turned HIV into a chronic, manageable disease.

Implementing the policy

A draft of the new policy, obtained by ALP, draws on a system of classifying soldiers according to their health status and needs.

An HIV-positive soldier who is stable and asymptomatic can now be classified as a “G2K1″, meaning they have a chronic but treatable disease and can be deployed “anywhere at any time”.

However, if HIV-positive soldiers are to be deployed abroad they must have a CD4 cell count [a measure of immune system strength] higher than 350, and an undetectable viral load [the amount of HI virus in the blood]. The ALP pointed out that this excluded anyone not on treatment, as only ARVs could reduce the viral load to undetectable levels.

S’khumbuzo Maphumalo, an ALP attorney, described the requirement as not reconcilable, with an emphasis on non-discrimination of asymptomatic HIV-positive individuals. “The way we see it, someone who has a very high CD4 count is unlikely to fall ill,” he told IRIN/PlusNews.

An HIV-positive recruit is also required to be on ARVs for three to six months before being considered for deployment, and failure to adhere to treatment is grounds for being declared “temporarily unfit for deployment and military courses”.

Ramlakan confirmed that a soldier would have to be on ARVs to qualify for foreign deployment, but declined to discuss the rationale for such a provision. He also noted that personnel with higher health classifications would be given preference for foreign deployment.

The only HIV-positive soldier known to have been deployed abroad is one of the applicants in the court case brought by SASFU, Sergeant Sipho Mthethwa, an operations planner sent to Sudan for six months in October 2009.

On his cell phone from Darfur, in western Sudan, Mthethwa said he was “very, very happy [about the new policy]. Now I feel that I’m a full member of the SANDF because I do everything that other people are allowed to do.”

He claimed he was still treated unfairly by his superiors. “They just want to make sure that I get demoralized, or I quit, or I get sick. Hopefully that’s not going to happen,” he told IRIN/PlusNews, adding that he was fit and taking his daily ARV medication.

Ramlakan said a campaign to inform unit commanders and health workers about the new policy was underway, but Dan Mthembu, of SASFU, told IRIN/PlusNews that his union had yet to see the policy, or have the opportunity to ensure it was properly implemented. “We need to sit down and work together, but we’ve been excluded from the process of implementation.”

Kabiro Health Care Trust
Kawangware 46
P.O. Box 55454, Nairobi
Tel: 020-565162

Kasarani Maternity & Nursing Home
Kasarani – Kangundo Road
P.O. Box 31524, Nairobi 00600
Tel: 020-860026, 862742
Beds: 60

Kayole Hospital
Kayole Estate
P.O. Box 67617, Nairobi 00100
Tel: 020-790600, 782473
Beds: 40

Kilimanjaro Nursing Home
Major Kinyanjui Street
P.O. Box 43920, Nairobi
Tel: 020-3760773, 3765265

Komarock Nursing Home
Komarock Estate Section II
P.O. Box 19340, Nairobi 00200
Tel: 020-783648
Beds: 10

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MAUN, Small charter planes fly tourists from all over the world to safari camps in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, where they view wildlife by day and pay up to US$1,000 a night to stay in luxury lodges or rough it in five-star tents.

The safari camps are mainly expatriate owned and managed, but guests are waited on, cooked for and guided through the bush by people from Maun, the largest town in the district and the gateway to the Okavango. After the government, safari camp operators are the biggest employers.

Most of the camps are only reachable by air, so employees spend three months at a time in the bush, working and living together. Many are young and single, while those who are married are rarely employed as couples and usually leave their spouses behind in Maun.

In other parts of the world, after-hours boredom would not be considered a dangerous occupational hazard, but this is Botswana, where one in four adults is infected with HIV.

“Let’s say a camp has 12 staff and you’re there for three months. You finish work and it’s boring and it’s quiet,” said Bonti Botunile, a relief manager who has worked at a number of safari camps. “People are social creatures; they’re going to get together and then break up and move on, and some won’t disclose their [HIV] status because they fear rejection.”

Companies have to foot the bill for HIV/AIDS-related absenteeism; sick employees must be flown out and relief workers flown in. A few years ago, safari camp operators began waking up to the fact that HIV/AIDS was bad for business.

“A lot of people died, a lot had to be flown to hospital; they were constantly having to retrain,” said Botunile. “They realised that if we don’t do something, our businesses are going to suffer.”

A number of the companies met with local health authorities to form a committee that now meets every two months to coordinate HIV/AIDS programmes for camp employees.

“Companies do their best”

The companies pay the costs of regularly flying doctors, nurses and counsellors from the Maun District Health Team into the camps to attend to staff members’ health needs and to conduct voluntary counselling and HIV testing. Many companies also employ full-time welfare officers and have a nurse on call to provide medical advice.

Before becoming a welfare officer for A&K Safaris, Mary Hastag worked for 10 different safari camp operators between 2004 and 2006, providing HIV/AIDS education. “At the time, there wasn’t much happening, but now most companies have workplace policies, welfare officers and lay counsellors. It’s a big improvement,” she told IRIN/PlusNews.

”A lot of people died, a lot had to be flown to hospital; they were constantly having to retrain.”
Lecco Masoko, a welfare officer and AIDS councillor for a company that operates three camps in the Okavango, gives employees information on how to stay healthy and encourages them to be tested. “By October last year, virtually all of our staff knew their status,” he said.

Although he knows that about 36 percent of employees are HIV positive, he doesn’t know an individual’s status unless they decide to disclose it, but said many employees were open about being HIV positive.

“People tend to be more open about their HIV status in the camps than they are in town,” commented Allison Brown, a nurse contracted by 25 safari operators to provide medical advice and evaluations.

By special arrangement with Maun Hospital, camp employees who are on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment and have been declared stable by a doctor can pick up a three-month supply of the drugs when they come home on leave, but Brown said the HIV/AIDS clinic at the hospital did not always have enough stock to give them medicine for three months at a time.

Hastag said the safari operators’ good intentions often came up against the limitations of the local public health service. “There’s a shortage of medical staff and drugs, so even if the companies do their best, at times the District Health Team doesn’t go to the camps every month because of staff shortages.” February was one such month, when A&K had to fly employees in need of medical attention to Maun.

According to Brown, newly arrived expatriate managers also sometimes lacked sufficient support and information to help them deal with HIV and AIDS. “Management is under a lot of pressure,” she said. “They’ve got busy lodges, guests who’re paying a lot of money, and staff who are sometimes sick.”

Behaviour change a challenge

Ensuring that HIV-positive employees receive all the medical care and healthy food that they need is one thing; making sure that HIV-negative employees stay that way is more difficult.

Male and female condoms are available at all the camps, and some companies have built sports fields and installed satellite television to combat the boredom factor, but convincing employees to change their behaviour is not easy.

Staff receive information about how to minimise their HIV risk, but “most are single, and there’s a habit of having one partner in camp and one in Maun,” said Hastag. 22 February 2008 (PlusNews)

NAIROBI, (IRIN) – At least 34 cases of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) have been reported in the Rift Valley town of Nakuru in the western region, a senior health official has said.

“Two deaths have also been reported in the hospital,” Shahnaaz Sharif, the senior deputy director of medical services, said. Another two deaths have been reported in the community, but not confirmed, Sharif said.

The cases had been reported in the Kasabara area in the Gilgil division of the town. The cases were attributed to the contamination of a spring in the Mbaruk area in the district. Intervention measures included supplying the residents with clean water, along with a ban on the hawking of food in the area, he said.

“We are also going to protect the spring and chlorinate it,” he said. In addition, a mobile clinic run by the Kenya Red Cross Society distributed prophylaxis treatment to 986 people, as well as health and hygiene education, in Mbaruk. At the same time, water kiosks will be set up along the Nakuru-Naivasha highway.

Sharif said he was awaiting laboratory results to confirm whether the AWD was cholera. Meanwhile, an outbreak of cholera in the western district of Kisumu East has still not been brought under control.

“There has been an on-and-off recurrence of the disease,” Sharif said. The latest outbreak in the district, which began on 6 June, mainly affected the slum areas of Manyatta, Nyalenda and Obunga and was attributed to seepage from latrines, which contaminated wells.

An earlier outbreak of the disease in January affected the districts of Bondo, Homa Bay, Kisii South, Kisumu West, Migori, Nyando, Rongo, Siayathe and Suba in the western region, leading to the deaths of 46 people, with 832 cases being reported, according to a UN World Health Organization (WHO) report on 19 April.

So far, no new cases had been reported in the other districts, he said. Cholera is an acute bacterial infection whose symptoms include copious, painless, watery diarrhoea that can easily lead to severe dehydration and death if not treated promptly. 3 July 2008