Part 1:
Impact of Aids on the:
• Individual
Aids has a impact on the individual because the person is infected with Aids pandemic. People with Aids suffer from stigma and discrimination. This is caused because people do not understand the individuals circumstances or what they went through. AIDS can also effect the relationship that the individual has with their family. If the individual is a parent and has AIDS, it can change the family roles causing anger and resentment.
• Business
It will have a impact on skills and productivity.
Business bottom line or profits can be affected.
The ability to carry on working will start to deteriorate.
The business cannot discriminate any employee that suffers from HIV/AIDS.
The business would have to start implementing programmes to help people prevent it ,which costs the business money (extra expense).
Conflict can build up between staff if the find out that a individual is infected.
• Government
AIDS has an impact an impact on the government because it increases the availability of human capital. The government cannot provide good health care for the high population in the country that has AIDS. Young adults are dying and they are the taxable population which reduces the availability of resources for public expenses. Without enough money the government cannot provide treatment and care for the people with HIV/AIDS.
Unemployment as a socio-economic issue in the macro-environment of a business affect the business directly and indirectly.
Directly:
Unemployment as a socio-economic issue affects the macro-environment. It affects the economic environment and physical environment. The economical environment is affected because the production line of the business becomes sl...
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IV. Black Empowerment
Anglo American South Africa and its independently managed subsidiaries announced a procurement and enterprise development of R24.6 billion spent for consumables, services and capital with black managed and owned businesses in 2008. It is important for Anglo American to support local communities and ensure that Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) continues to be part of their procurement approach. The operations, social and labour plans will carry on boosting further and efforts to contribute positively to the transformation and local development through local procurement.
The projects that get implemented aims are to put in place consistent local procurement strategies, processes and scoring mechanisms to ensure that they achieve common preferential procurement goals.- Anglo American BEE aim.
...In conclusion, since the first documented case of HIV and AIDS in the 1980s, it has affected health care in several ways. Donor centers have changed their screening of donors and testing ways of the blood collected. It has increased the awareness needed for taking universal precautions when dealing in any patient care. Medical equipment modified to protect health care providers from accidentally being stuck with infected needles. Health programs designed to educate patients and raise awareness of the disease among the at-risk population. HIV and AIDS have had an impact on patient care but in a positive way also.
The trends in unemployment affect three important macroeconomics variables: 1) gross domestic product (GDP), 2) unemployment rate, and 3) the inflation rate.
“We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today, we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work.” (Jesse Jackson 2011) The economy in United States is more and more decreasing over the time. The unemployment is becoming a big issue since many years. When we talk about unemployment, we talk about the situation of an individual who is actively looking for a job during the four weeks. The underemployment refers to an employment situation that is insufficient in some important way for the worker, relative to a standard. Discouraged workers are a marginally attached workers who have not made specific effort to find a job within the past four weeks because of previous unsuccessful attempts to find a job. However, unemployment is often used as a measure of health of the economy which is GDP. By definition, the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is the market value of all the final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time period. How unemployment, underemployment and discouraged workers affect the GDP in an economy?
Illness such as AIDS impacts the economics because a person who is unwell is unable to work, it reduces the opportunity to have access to food, adequate housing and clothing due to limited income. SA is known to have the highest number of people affected with HIV, the study by Lou, Chen, Yu, Li & Ye states that the difference in the incidence and prevalence of HIV might be mainly due to economic instability and other factors. Although SA is a developed country in terms of its infrastructure, it is also a country with a major social and economic problems. In SA females affected are denied employment which leads to their loss of income. As income plays an important role in an individual when women with the loss of their income as a result of their sickness they are majorly impacted. The loss of income limits access to adequate housing, health care, and literacy and so this could lead to death as they unable to afford their treatments to maintain their
As a result, the virus has greatly affected people in countries across the world, especially Africa. In Africa there are thousands of medical facilities in South Africa and they all have a high occupancy rating. In South Africa today, 80% of patients hospitalized in facilities have HIV (“Impact of HIV and AIDS...”). People working in these facilities such as doctors and nurses put themselves at risk because they are at risk for getting HIV related illnesses. In Africa there is a high demand for treatment of the disease and the hospitals have very low resources and training to treat HIV patients. When HIV first started there were very little resources to use for the patients that needed help.
Over 33 million people around the world have AIDS (“Global Statistics.”). The disease, caused by the virus HIV, attacks the immune system, which is meant to protect your body from illness. Currently, there is no cure for AIDS, and 25 million have lost their lives due to it. AIDS is a serious issue affecting many people around the world today as they struggle with the disease, research for medicines, and attempt to reduce new infections
The government played a major part in the AIDS situation. The government’s blood banks did not wish to check blood with a test developed by the CDC because it was not “cost-efficient.” The government also neglected the CDC of large sums of money needed in the pursuit of a cure or vaccine in the disease and thought more of dollar signs that the lives of people.
Recessions will cause unemployment because of the loss of output and GNP. Some people may argue that unemployment is ¡°a part of the functioning of the economy¡±. They are partly right, for the unemployment is inevitable because of the dynamic economy. This kind of unemployment is called natural rate of unemployment©¤the sum of frictional and structural unemployment. However, this is only a part of unemployment. Because the firms ¡°cut back and produce less¡± when they experience recessions, they will employ fewer workers. Therefore, the unemployment rate rises. This increase in unemployment caused by recessions and depressions is called cyclical unemployment.
Unemployment is a macroeconomic factor that is pertinent to an extensive economy at a regional level. Therefore it affects a large population rather than a few select individuals. Unemployment does not only have social costs, but economic costs too. The ILO, International Labour organization, defines unemployment as, ''People of working age, who are without work, but available for work and actively seeking employment.'' Therefore implying that it is a state of an individual looking for a job but not having one. Unemployment is one of the key indicators in determining the economic stability of a country; hence governments, businesses and consumers closely monitor it. There are numerous aspects that might lead to unemployment such as labour market conflicts and recessions in the economy. There are two main types of unemployment, which can be focused on, seasonal and cyclical unemployment. Seasonal unemployment occurs when a person is unemployed or their profession is not in demand during a particular season. On the contrary, cyclical unemployment occurs when there is less demand for goods and services in the market so consequently supply needs to be decreased.
affected by the severe effect of unemployment. When there is longer period of unemployment for a person, the difficulty will be more for a person to get out of the unemployment vicious cycle. There would be a self-perpetuating effect when there is chronic unemployment. The reason for chronic unemployment is that the employers they do not find unemployed persons as attractive. The unemployment rate increases the unemployment financial costs. The nation and the government of the economy suffer. The government has to pay some form of employment benefits to the person who are unemployed. The greater the period of unemployment in the economy the more is the amount of money that the government has to provide. The nation not only losses from decrease in production but there is some additional
Unemployment is a problem, which worries the majority of economists, social workers, and common citizens. It is obvious that there are not enough working places for all citizens willing to find work and take care of their family budget. It is a consequence of a careless regulation of the economic processes in the country. Unemployment is a widespread problem, and it touches on all the layers of society including people from different occupations. In addition, the new college graduates create one of the segments of the unemployed, which struggle to find work. However, it is hard to achieve this aim due to the diversity of problems and inappropriate environment existing in the business segment. The following discussion helps evaluate the diversity
The world is constantly fighting against diseases. More than 21 million people have already died due to AIDS throughout the duration of the pandemic (Kanabus et al., 2012). In 2001, three million people died from AIDS, making it the world’s 4th largest cause of death after heart disease, stroke, and acute lower respiratory infection (Inrig, 2012). The most severely impacted continent in the world is Africa with over %70 of the world’s 40 million people living with HIV or AIDS (Dixon et al., 2002). It has become the leading cause of death among Africans of all ages, according to UNAIDS (Elliot and Stein, 2011). Proven by these alarming statistics, the effects of this disease is becoming more evident in society as the epidemic continues. This paper will provide a strong argument and analysis as to how HIV/AIDS negatively impacts the education sector and economy of a country like Africa and how this infection will continue to impact the future.
Lower GDP for the economy also one of the consequences of unemployment in current time. High rate of this issue implies the economy is operating below full capacity and inefficient so that it will lead to lower output and incomes. Because people who are searching for their work usually will spend less in purchasing goods and
Inflation is a wide phenomenon where prices increase thus resulting less buying power of individuals. Unemployment affects not just the person himself but also his/her family. Unemployment brings with it despair, unhappiness and anguish. It forces people to live their lives in a way they do not wish to, the life expectancy is negatively affected.
The aim of this literature review is to discuss HIV and AIDS in South Africa. HIV and AIDS has been a prominent health concern in the southern part of Africa. This essay will explain how HIV & AIDS can be contracted and transmitted, the effect it has on the victims, the impact it has on the economy, why the rates of HIV and AIDS are rapidly increasing in South Africa, how it can be reduced, then followed by a conclusion that will summarise this entire review.