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- ILO launches new initiative to reach 5 million workers with voluntary HIV testing by 2015
- ILO Director-General and UNAIDS Executive Director launch new programme on voluntary and confidential HIV counselling and testing to reach 5 million workers world-wide
- The International Labour Organization launches “Getting to Zero at Work” campaign
- The International Labour Organization (ILO), together with UNAIDS and the World Health Organization, launched on 27 November the “Getting to Zero at Work” campaign to promote the rights of people living with HIV in the workplace. The initiative recognizes the vital role that the world of work plays in the response to AIDS.
- Sex workers learn business skills in new community-based ILO project
- Sex workers in Bangkok are being trained to set up their own businesses in a new project spearheaded by the International Labour Organisation. The intervention is designed to challenge the economic vulnerability of sex workers and help them create additional forms of income generation.
- HIV travel restrictions – a primary obstacle to universal access for migrants
- There are still about 50 countries, territories and areas around the world that impose some form of restriction on the entry, stay and residence of people living with HIV. Such restrictions remain a key form of discrimination, affecting the rights and freedom of movement of many migrants living with HIV and would-be migrants.
- Young people key to reversing the global AIDS epidemic and leading the response
- A new report highlights that global commitments will be achieved only if the unique needs of young women and men are acknowledged and their human rights fulfilled, respected, and protected.
- Highly vulnerable transport sector needs effective HIV programmes
- Mobile populations, especially transport workers, are highly vulnerable to HIV. Many truck drivers and other mobile workers spend large amounts of time away from their families and can engage in multiple concurrent partnerships.
- Partners come together to lessen HIV-risk for migrants and mobile populations
- For the world’s 214 million international migrants and 740 million internal migrants the sometimes challenging conditions of the migration process can leave them vulnerable to HIV infection. During the General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS in New York, governments, civil society partners and intergovernmental agencies came together to examine ways of increasing access to HIV services for people on the move.
- Dairy cooperative in Tanzania is helping rural women to help themselves
- In rural Tanzania a women’s dairy cooperative, supported by the International Labour Organization, is giving women, including women living with HIV, economic independence and hope for a better future. One of them, Faith, has seen her life transformed.
- UNAIDS and IOM sign agreement to improve access to HIV services for migrants
- The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) today signed a new cooperation agreement to overcome HIV-related challenges faced by many migrants.
- Sex workers and loggers in Guyana challenge HIV together
- Kay Forde has been a sex worker in Guyana for more than 20 years. She is an AIDS activist too. As secretary of the One Love Organization, a non-governmental organization addressing the HIV needs of sex workers, Ms Forde is committed to working with their clients, many of whom earn their living in the logging industry.
- World AIDS Day at the International Labour Organization highlights world of work and HIV
- Preventing HIV and protecting human rights in the work place were the themes of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) event on World AIDS Day. Staff members formed the traditional ILO human red ribbon which was illuminated as part of the Light for Rights global campaign.
- ILO workplace partners' forum tackles HIV with high level support
- The recent adoption of a ground-breaking human rights instrument on HIV and the world of work has brought the key role of the workplace in the global AIDS response into sharp focus.
- Ground-breaking labour instrument to address HIV in the world of work
- A ground-breaking new labour instrument to address HIV in the world of work is one of the issues considered at the annual International Labour Conference (ILC- 99th Session) in Geneva from 2-18 June 2010.
- New wave of cooperatives in Cameroon help HIV-positive women gain economic independence
- Many people living with HIV face not only health issues but may also struggle to make ends meet economically. A number of HIV-positive women in north-west Cameroon are taking the initiative by generating income through cooperatives, with the assistance of the International Labour Organization (ILO) funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.
- Brazil post offices join Global HIV Awareness Campaign
- For the first time in Brazil, post offices will join efforts to prevent new HIV infections. The local take on the global campaign “Post Offices Fighting Against AIDS”, was launched Tuesday 9 February in a post office in Brasilia, the capital of the country.
- International Labour Organization marks World AIDS Day
- About one hundred officials gathered today to form a human red ribbon to commemorate and celebrate World AIDS Day at the International Labour Organization (ILO) headquarters in Geneva on 1 December.
- Private sector in West and Central Africa explore strategic partnerships for improved health outcomes
- A strategic combination of private sector know-how and technologies with public sector expertise and funding could lead to improved health and a more efficient AIDS response in West and Central Africa. This was the message from a one day workshop held in Ghana focusing on the role of the private sector in Global Fund processes that brought together companies, national business coalitions tackling HIV and employers federations, as well as trade unions and development partners from all over West and Central Africa.
- Nigeria launches postal service campaign for HIV awareness
- To mark World Post Day on 9 October, Nigeria held a national launch of a global awareness campaign in collaboration with the Universal Postal Union, UNAIDS, the ILO and UNI Global.
- China’s vocational schools play a key role in AIDS education
- The Zhaoqing Vocational School in Guangdong, China, provides basic technical skills to several thousand migrant workers a year. It is also one of the first schools of its kind in the country to include information on sexuality, reproductive health and HIV in its core curriculum. This model has now been scaled up nationally with technical assistance from the International Labour Organization (ILO).
- New initiative to train India’s people living with HIV on AIDS advocacy in the workplace
- Today, October 7 2009, we mark World Day for Decent Work. The International Labour Organization and the India Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS has recently launched an innovative tool in India’s response to HIV in the world of work. The two organizations have come together to release a training video package aimed at guiding those living with the virus in AIDS advocacy in the workplace as rights at work include freedom from discrimination.