South African Government's Policies on HIV/AIDS

Running head: CASE STUDY 1
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CASE STUDY 2
1) Research the current budget and policies of the South African government on
dealing with the epidemic. How are they currently handling the issue?
The direct expenditure of the government on the epidemic (HIV/AIDS) interventions are
in the areas of research, prevention, care and treatment, legal issues, impact mitigation, or public
awareness (Wyatt et.al, 2017). These are the main proactive effort of the South Africa
government to use public resources to conduct research, combat the spread of the infection, offer
treatment to individuals who infected by the disease, or to offer support to individuals who are
affected and infected by the diseases. To the government, prevention is the primary factor of the
new (NSP) National Strategic Plan for HIV, STI (sexually transmitted disease) and Tuberculosis
(TB), which are all reducing the rate of new infections by approximately 50%.
The South Africa government identified the following in its budget: condom distribution,
life skills prevention in institutions programme, home-based and community care and support
programmes (Saidi, Salie & Douglas, 2017). The treatment and care of HIV for all the people is
estimated to cost a total of 66million dollars per year. The government will pay this amount from
domestic resources.
South Africa adopted a new evidence-based policy of providing HIV treatment to all
individuals living with HIV. The health care in South Africa places emphasis on the provision of
community-based services (Meyiwa et.al, 2017).
The government also provides (PrEP) pre-exposure prophylaxis to sex workers in the
country. It approved PrEP, the use of antiretroviral medicine to prevent HIV-negative individuals
from infection.
The voluntary medical male circumcision programme is being provided by the
government since it was found that it can reduce the risk of male-to-female HIV transmission by

CASE STUDY 3
60 per cent. Lastly, The South Africa government encourages HIV education in institutions.
Different schools provide all-inclusive sexuality education.
2) Discuss the pros and cons of the pharmaceutical industry assisting the South
African government in addressing the HIV/AIDS issue.
Pros:
• The Pharmaceutical industry developed a proactive, comprehensive strategy to
combat the spread of HIV/AIDS among the people by providing ART and awareness to its
employees.
• The industry also displayed initiative for great social responsibility by conducting
wellness programs and care to extend up to the workers and their families.
• The strategy also prevented the higher loss to the people. For example, if in case the
employees were not treated then the rate of losses would have been higher, most of them would
have died.
• Pharmaceutical industries and the government work in collaboration to ensure the
implementation of various programs to help in controlling the spread of HIV/AIDS. This will
help the Pharmaceutical industries to create a stronghold in South Africa.
• The Pharmaceutical industries develop, research, as well as distribute retroviral
medicine to the people and help in saving countless lives in South Africa. The industry is
important because it is the primary source of medical innovation. The retroviral drugs which they
offer are evaluated for market quality, efficacy, and safety as a condition of market access. In
another word, the may advantage of Pharmaceutical industries is to create value by producing
and discovering effective vaccines, medicines and services that improve the well-being of the
Patients (Bagnall & Tanziani, 2015).