Despite HIV and AIDS knowledge and attitude change programmes, workplace HIV and
AIDS-related discrimination persists in workplaces in many sectors, including the
education sector. This study set out to investigate why the phenomenon of workplace
HIV and AIDS-related discrimination persists; and to predict which factors were
responsible and how they related to HIV and AIDS-related discrimination in the
workplace. A stratified random sample of 205 teachers; 123 of whom were from 10
schools of varied backgrounds in Bojanala Region of North West Province of South
Africa and 82 from schools around Kampala, Central Region of Uganda was drawn.
Twenty-seven respondents of the South African sample participated in both the
quantitative survey and in-depth interview while the rest responded to a selfadministered
questionnaire. Using a stepwise regression analysis, traditional beliefs
predicted workplace HIV and AIDS-related discrimination, explained11% of variance in
the second model while the third model explained only 2% more – 13% (R square of
0.136) but each of the three models was significant (p-values of 0.000). Attitudes were
the second strongest predictor; and only HIV and AIDS-legal knowledge could predict
discrimination but not biomedical HIV and AIDS knowledge. In the in-depth interview,
incidents of discrimination were reported, possible reasons for HIV and AIDS-related
discrimination were reported; and it was found that workers varied in ways of keeping
secrets regarding sensitive information such as colleagues’ HIV-positive status, and
cited reasons for revealing such information which included malice, jealousy, moral
responsibility, anger and loose talks. There are implications for reducing workplace HIV
and AIDS-related discrimination which include: Integrating HIV and AIDS-legal
knowledge with biomedical HIV and AIDS knowledge, more efforts should be spent in
designing and imparting information to reduce traditional beliefs, develop and evaluate
instruments to measure traditional beliefs and HIV and AIDS-legal knowledge; and to
study more about secret keeping, particularly in regard to workplace HIV and AIDSrelated
discrimination. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / D. Admin. (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/10470 |
| Date | 06 1900 |
| Creators | Mukasa, Joel Wilberforce Senankya |
| Contributors | Joubert, Johan Pierre Retief, Van Aardt, Carel |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 1 online resource (xxxix, 614 leaves) : illustrations, application/pdf |
| Rights | University of South Africa |
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