HIV/AIDS has resulted in significantly increased demand on the health and welfare system and it is anticipated that this will grow. It is anticipated that social services will find it increasingly difficult to cope as the demand increases whilst staff levels and productivity are affected by the disease. It is anticipated that HIV/AIDS will also impact negatively on the psychological well-being of society due to the cumulative effect of parental death, educator illness, increased death in communities and increasing numbers of AIDS orphans, as well as they inability of traditional arrangements to cope with the impact of the disease.