All ILO Newsroom content

November 2010

1. 

   Video

   ILO Launch of the Joint WHO-ILO-UNAIDS policy guidelines on improving health workers' access to HIV and TB prevention, treatment, care and support services

   19 November 2010

   Message of Dr. Sophia K. Kisting, Director, ILO Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work and Ms. Elizabeth Tinoco, Director, ILO Sectoral Activities Department

2. 

   Video

   2010 East African Business Council regional CEO Testing Day and Health Fair: A Message of Dr Sophia Kisting

   11 November 2010

   Dr Sophia Kisting, Director of the ILO Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work, invited leaders from the business community in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda to participate in a voluntary testing and counselling initiative and give effect to the ILO new international labour standard on HIV and AIDS.

February 2010

1. 

   Video

   WIND of Change

   05 February 2010

   More than one billion people worldwide earn their income from agriculture, working steadily to increase productivity and their standard of living. But farming brings risks that can undermine or even eliminate the gains hard won in the fields. From manual labour to machines, dangerous chemicals and unsanitary workplaces: farming families struggle with dangers at work and at home every day, but there's a WIND of change coming, as ILO TV reports.

October 2009

1. 

   Video

   A training video for people living with HIV/AIDS

   09 October 2009

   9 October 2009 - This video from the International Labour Organization (ILO) offers practical step-by-step guidelines to help people living with HIV/AIDS to raise awareness and understanding in their workplaces. With contributions from more than a 100 people living with HIV, it is part of a unique training package developed with the Indian Network of People living with HIV/AIDS (INP+). It has been produced in both English and Hindi with the support of the United States Department of Labor (USDOL) and the President Emergency Funds for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

July 2009

1. 

   Video

   Never Abandon, Never Give Up

   22 July 2009

   The ILO project has developed a range of behaviour change communication materials including a short, Charlie Chaplin style film to encourage stigma reduction and condom promotion. The film "Never Abandon, Never Give Up" stars leading Chinese actor Wang Baoqiang, himself a former migrant construction worker in Beijing. The film tells the story of a famous actor who visits his "hometown fellow" who has HIV and is facing isolation from his coworkers.

April 2008

1. 

   Article

   The ILO/USDOL International HIV/AIDS Workplace Education Programme - Stories from the field

   15 April 2008

   Approximately 650 workplaces in 24 countries stretching from Benin to China are now involved with in the workplace education programme known as SHARE (Strategic HIV/AIDS Responses in Enterprises). Overall, an estimated million workers benefit from the ILO interventions financed by the United States Department of Labor. These are some lessons learned from SHARE countries

2. 

   Article

   Saving lives, protecting jobs: new horizons in the fight against HIV/AIDS at work

   14 April 2008

   HIV is having a devastating effect on the world of work. The majority of the 33.2 million people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS are working and have skills and experience their families, workplace and countries can ill afford to lose. As the UN’s lead agency in HIV/AIDS workplace interventions, the ILO is launching a new report highlighting strategic responses to HIV/AIDS in enterprises worldwide. ILO Online spoke with Dr Sophia Kisting, Director of the ILO/AIDS.