Mines, Migration and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa
They also share another distinct feature: during the last century, they sent a large numbers of migrant workers to South African mines. This paper examines whether participation …Web
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Mines, Migration and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa | Policy …
Abstract: Swaziland and Lesotho have the highest HIV prevalence in the world. They also share another distinct feature: during the last century, they sent a large numbers of …Web
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Burden of disease: A scoping review of HIV/AIDS and TB in
Human immunodeficiency virus, TB and cancer are three of South Africa's greatest burdens of disease (Olu et al., 2015). The current scope review revealed paucity of evidence and engagement with the possible influence of HIV/AIDS and TB on ONIHL and HCPs. This is a significant worry considering that mining remains an important industrial …Web
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How Hiv Aids Affect The Mining Industry Commerce Essay
HIV also has an impact on the labour force of mining by having an increase in mortality, for example around 60% of the mining workforce is aged between 30 and 44 years; in 15 years this is predicted to fall to 10% [ 4] . This shows that the labour force for mining is being affected due to deaths related to AIDS.Web
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Mining : Responding to a Public Health Catastrophe Part I
workers in South Africa's gold mining industry have among the highest inci-dences of TB in the world, of between 3,000 and 7,000 cases per 100,000 popu- ... Mining activity is also found to be significantly linked to the spread of HIV/AIDS at a population level in Africa (25), with risks extending from the mining com-munity into the wider ...Web
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Briefing Note on HIV and Labour Migration in South Africa
table : Sources of Mine Labour in South africa, 9 0- 000 Year rSa BotSwana LeSotHo MoZaMBiQUe SwaZiLanD totaL % rSa % Foreign 9 0 74,452 2,2112 10,439 77,921 3,449 174,402 43 57 940 178,708 14,427 52,044 74,883 7,152 347,054 51 49 6 The South Africa National HIV&AIDS/STI Strategic Plan 2007-2011 7 Ibid. 8 Ibid 9 Ibid, pg2Web
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HIV prevalence and TB in migrant miners communities of origin in …
The South African mining industry has been a major contributor to the economy of the surrounding countries of the Southern African Development Community ... Cornoa L, Walqueb D. Mines, migration and HIV/AIDS in southern Africa. J Afr Econ. 2012;21(3):465–498. View ArticleWeb
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Full article: Migration and health in Southern Africa: 100 years and
Abstract. Migration has deep historical roots in South and Southern Africa and to this day continues to be highly prevalent and a major factor shaping South African society and health. In this paper we examine the role of migration in the spread of two diseases nearly 100 years apart: tuberculosis following the discovery of gold in 1886 and HIV ...Web
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HIV Prevalence and Risk Behaviors Among Mozambicans Working in South
Introduction. For over 100 years Mozambican men have been migrating yearly to South Africa to work in the mining sector, living away from their home and family members [].Approximately 34,700 Mozambican men worked in South African mines in 2011. 1 Men who stay away from their wives or girlfriends are more likely to have …Web
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Race, place, and HIV: The legacies of apartheid and racist policy …
Black South Africans accounted for 6.2 out of 6.4 million people living with HIV in South Africa in 2012, highlighting extreme racial disparities in HIV infection.These racial disparities are the result of structural and historical factors, specifically, the racist policies which were facilitated by segregation before, during, and after Apartheid.Web
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Mines, Migration and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa
Lucia Corno, Damien de Walque, Mines, Migration and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa, Journal of African Economies, Volume 21, Issue 3, June 2012, ... We interpret these …Web
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'Dying for gold': the effects of mineral mining on HIV, tuberculosis
Mining activity is also found to be significantly linked to the spread of HIV/AIDS at a population level in Africa, such that the risk is not isolated to just the mining community. As Motsoaledi, health minister of South Africa, notes, "if TB and HIV are a snake in Southern Africa, the head of the snake is here in Southern Africa.Web
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Mines, Migration and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa
into South Africa has increased the spread of HIV/ AIDS in their countries of origin. Consistent with this interpretation, the association between HIV infection and being a …Web
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Mines, Migration and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa
Swaziland and Lesotho have the highest HIV prevalence in the world. They also share another distinct feature: during the last century, they sent a large numbers of migrant workers to South African mines. This paper examines whether participation in mining in a bordering country affects HIV infection rate.Web
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Between Cause and Cure: The Mining Industry and HIV/AIDS Governance …
At the 2010 HIV/AIDS conference in Durban, the South African gold mining sector came under heavy criticism from medical practitioners, ex-miners, advocacy groups and the South African Minister of Health for its part in the tuberculosis crisis that affects the industry and its workforce. Tuberculosis is a so-called opportunistic disease of HIV/AIDS.Web
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The production of consumption: addressing the impact of mineral mining
According to Deloitte, this led to the mining group experiencing one of the lowest HIV/AIDS growth rates in the industry, ... Zuma K, Lurie MN: Estimating the impact of establishing family housing on the annual risk of HIV infection in South African mining communities. Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 2005, 32 (6): 333-340.Web
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HIV in South Africa
South Africa is home to the largest HIV seropositive population in the world, with 7·2 million individuals.1 Since the country's first case of HIV in 1982, South Africa has come a long way to reduce HIV/AIDS-related rates of infection, morbidity, and mortality. Some responses to the epidemic fostered improvement, whereas others exacerbated the …Web
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HEALTH, WELL-BEING AND OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENE
South Africa • Mine Health and Safety Act of 1996 • Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act 78 of 1973 • Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act, No 130 of 1993 ... Refer to page 222 (HIV/AIDS); page 221 …Web
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HIV Prevalence and Risk Behaviors Among Mozambicans Working in South
This was the first study in Mozambique to determine the prevalence of HIV and associated demographic and risk behaviors, and assess use and access to prevention and healthcare services among Mozambicans working in South African mines. Men who had worked in a South African mine in the past 12 months were recruited between …Web
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HIV/Aids in the mining industry: what are we doing about it?
The innovative project has assisted more than 68 500 patients since 2011 — a substantial number of these being HIV and AIDS-related services. The Northern Cape is an …Web
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D MSIZA CHIEF INSPECTOR OF MINES
This gazette is also available free online at 152Implementation of HIV self No. 42956 -testinGOVERNMENT GAZETTE, g in the South African mining industry17 JANUARY 2020 3 PART A: THE GUIDANCE NOTE 1. FOREWORD 1.1. The guidance note on the implementation of HIV self-testing in the South African mining industry has been …Web
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Briefing Note on HIV and Labour Migration in Lesotho
Lesotho has been dependant on remittances from the mines in South Africa since the latter half of the 19th century. However, due to downscaling of the South African mining sector, migrant Basotho mining labour in South Africa halved in the 1990s.8 Since then there has been a progressive decline in the number of Basotho miners working in theWeb
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HIV and Men Who Have with Men in South Africa | AIDS and Behavior
Clearly, 250 years of criminalization and repression did nothing to eradicate male same behavior, but there was very little research in the biomedical field in this population, until the advent of the first cases of AIDS in South Africa in white gay men in 1983 [5, 6].Initially seen as a gay disease, HIV in South Africa rapidly developed into a …Web
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Mines, Migration and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa | Policy …
Mines, Migration and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa. Swaziland and Lesotho have the highest HIV prevalence in the world. They also share another distinct feature: during the last century, they sent a large numbers of migrant workers to South African mines. This paper examines whether participation in mining in a bordering country …Web
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Human immunodeficiency virus and migrant labor in South Africa
PIP: The impact of the migrant mine labor system in South Africa on transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was assessed by reviewing the literature on epidemiology of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and HIV, and interviewing at length 20 male miners and 24 women supporting themselves near the mines as prostitutes or …Web
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HIV Prevalence and Associated Factors Among Men in South Africa …
We investigated HIV prevalence and associated factors among men ≥ 15 years in South Africa using data from a 2017 nationwide cross-sectional survey. HIV prevalence was 10.5% among 6 646 participants. Prevalence increased from 4.1% in the younger men (15–24 years), 12.5% in young men (25–34 years) to 12.7% in older men (≥ …Web
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Mining and Risk of Tuberculosis in Sub-Saharan Africa
Tuberculosis (TB) has risen markedly in sub-Saharan African nations over the past 2 decades, with reported annual incidence doubling from 173.6 to 351.7 per 100 000 population between 1990 and 2007. 1, 2 Even in the wealthiest country on the continent, the Republic of South Africa, TB incidence more than tripled, from 305 per 100 000 in 1993 …Web
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The implications of HIV / AIDS for South African mines
HIV disease and AIDS will likely adversely affect mining productivity through increased absenteeism and the mortality of miners. This will be accompanied by rising …Web
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(PDF) Mines, migration and HIV/AIDS in southern Africa
Using Demographic and Health Surveys, the analysis shows that migrant miners ages 30-44 are 15 percentage points more likely to be HIV positive, and women whose partner is a …Web
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HIV/AIDS in South Africa: an overview
The first AIDS cases reported in South Africa occurred among homosexual men in 1982. Prior to the development of HIV antibody tests, about 100 blood transfusion-related infections are known to have occurred between 1982 and 1985. HIV testing of stored sera from a community survey in rural KwaZulu-Natal and blood donor data demonstrated a …Web
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