Policy - Protect Staff and Students Infected with HIV
8.1.8 Policy - Protect Staff and Students Infected with HIV
The policy framework on the right of employees or students to continue their job or education was clear in both systems. Most education ministries (63.6%) and most school districts (76.5%) said that their policy guaranteed the right to continue employment or their education.
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| Policy Gives Right to Continue Employment or Education | Yes |
No |
Under Certain Conditions |
Don’t Know |
Not Role |
| MOE-24 | 63.6 |
0 |
0 |
27.3 |
9.1 |
| SD-24 | 76.5 |
16 |
0.9 |
8.3 |
na |
About one-half (45.5%) of education ministries
(MOE-25) said their policy protected confidentiality. An additional 9.1% of education ministry officials said that their policy did so in part. 9.1% of ministries said that their policy did not protect confidentiality. 27.3% did not know. 9.1% said that this was not the role of the education ministry.73.4% of school districts
(SD-25) reported that confidentiality was protected specifically in their policy. 9.8% said that it was not. 3.0% said that it was protected in part. 10.7% did not know. Less than half (40.3%) of school principals (SP-20) reported that they regularly reviewed the procedures to ensure that confidentiality was being protected. 3.6% said that they planned to do so within the next two years. 11.2% of school principals reported that they had reviewed the policy within the last three years. 7.4% said that they had done so within the last 4-10 years. 29.1% of school principals had never reviewed the procedures to protect confidentiality and 8.4% did not know if the policies had been reviewed.Figure 27