HIV

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Environment and HIV/AIDS Energy and Environment
Practice Workshop Bamako - Mali 21-25 June 2004
Iyad Abumoghli EEG Practice Manager
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Objectives

• Impacts of HIV AIDS on the Environment
• Responses and Mitigation Measures

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HIV AIDS Impacts on the Environment

• Loss of human capacity
• Loss of staff time therefore, money
• Decline in institutional productivity
• Diversion of conservation funds

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Loss of staff EZEMVELO KZN WILDLIFE, SA

• Annual Death Rate is increasing

• 97 of deaths are health-related
• 95 of deceased are black males between 25 and 40
  years of age
• Emerging trend increased number of deaths of
  black females in same category

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What does it mean to lose staff??
Loss of a staff member is loss of
Experience Knowledge
Financial investments e.g. training costs
Continuity Of programs, projects activities

• Leadership
• and
• institutional
• vision

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What does it mean to lose staff??

• Loss of a staff member is loss of

Increased illegality- e.g. charcoal
trafficking as Forest Guards become
incapacitated And can not enforce the
Law Families losing their productive member
tend to resort to illegal trafficking
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Loss of Experience Knowledge
AIDS is killing the most intelligent, well
educated and trained professionals and
technicians
Community champions and leaders with rich
indigenous knowledge in biodiversity conservation
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Loss of staff time

• Loss of staff time caring for family members
• Loss of staff time attending funerals
• Leading to loss of productivity at work
• Loss of money

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Impacts Diversion of conservations funds

• Diversion of biodiversity conservation funds to
• Treat HIV AIDS staff
• Buy coffins
• Arrange funerals including transport
• Offer condolence to believed families

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Responses and Mitigation Measures
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Preserve Indigenous Knowledge Systems

• Train and mentor youth in traditional natural
  resource management issues
• 4000 Clubs across Malawi

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Engender Conservation Policies

• Target households affected by HIV AIDS (women
  orphans)
• Promote national policies that provide tenure
  security to widows and orphans to inherit
  resources

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Mainstreaming

• Mainstream integrate HIV AIDS activities in
  biodiversity conservation issues
• Work place interventions
• HIV AIDS resources centre

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Commitment

• Set aside budgets for HIV AIDS issues
• Fight stigma at the work place and community
  settings
• Lobby all levels of leadership for commitment

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Foster collaboration and partnerships

• Partner with other sectors to
• find solutions
• provide services and information
• Never reinvent the wheel

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Maintain capacity for conservation

• Promote awareness to action programs
• PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
• Develop HIV AIDS policies in conservation
  organizations
• Government agencies
• NGOs,
• Universities/training/research institutions
• Communities

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Capacity for conservation (cont)

• Consider providing anti-retroviral drug for staff
• Promote Voluntary Counseling Testing (VCT)
• Integrate HIV AIDS in planning

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Thank You