Introduction

FET Certificate in Public Awareness Promotion of Dread Disease & HIV/AIDS  

Credits: 166

NQF level: 4

Duration: 1 year

Entry requirements

NQF Level 3 or experience in a related field.

PURPOSE

 This qualification is intended for lay counselors and Community Health Care Workers who will educate and counsel communities about the HIV and AIDS pandemic. 

Its purpose is to equip qualifying learners with knowledge and understanding of the communities within which those living with life-threatening conditions such as HIV/AIDS find themselves confined and the ability to communicate with all members of these communities.

Knowledge and understanding of the processes of adult learning and the ability to successfully communicate new information so that a change in behaviour is brought about.

Knowledge of human behaviour and the ability to provide a means to achieve emotional and physical support for those in distress.

Knowledge and understanding of the principles of personal and community sanitation and the ability to initiate improvements in this area.

Knowledge and understanding of the cause and effect of life threatening conditions especially HIV and AIDS.

The skills to work as a team member and as a provider of support services within a multidisciplinary health care team

CAREER PATH

* Community development

* Community Health Work

* Psychology/Counseling

* Health and Emergency services

* Youth Development

* Social Work

* Primary Health Care

* Health studies 

This qualification is intended to enable lay people and/or health care workers to help individuals and/or groups to approach the HIV/AIDS pandemic and any other dread disease in an integrated way so that the condition may be managed satisfactorily. 

The care worker will be able to assist those suffering from or living closely with such conditions as HIV/AIDS and/or other dread disease to understand and accept the condition and take positive and necessary steps to enrich the quality of life of the sufferer and deal with the consequences of the pandemic.

 Learners successfully completing this Qualification will be able to:

(a) Communicate with individuals and groups to generate understanding of the HIV/AIDS or other dread disease pandemic.

(b) Provide knowledge of the causes and effects of infectious diseases including all sexually transmitted diseases to enable individuals and communities to combat their occurrence.

(c)Engage with individuals and groups to apply means to improve own and district health status.