Life or lunch, what do we choose? HIV/AIDS in the workplace

This paper illustrates how HIV/AIDS is affecting teachers as individuals and as professionals. Teachers are expected to play a major role in combating HIV/AIDS, but at the same time, the results of this study show that they are also being affected by the disease. And unless the difficulties that they face in their workplace and at home are dealt with, it is likely that the gravity of the disease may become unbearable for some of them. As a result, they will be unable to fully develop their role as communicators about the disease. The information presented here reflects issues that were raised by teachers from Gaza province during a study conducted among over 600 primary and secondary school teachers in 2003.