Fifty participants attended the seminar from the regional labour inspections, sanitary inspection, training and education institutions, trade unions and employers. The ILO Office Director gave the opening speech and ILO/Mow specialists elaborated on OSH and HIV/AIDS issues. The Uzbek OSH centre, Uzbek trade unions and employers, Tajik and regional representatives presented reports. A question-answer session was held with the ILO Moscow OSH specialist.

The regional participants showed considerable interest to the ILO approach to OSH and HIV/AIDS. The seminar was the high light of a national project developing and adapting OSH and HIV/AIDS modular training to the Uzbek situation, promoting also social partnership and a new training approach.

Representatives from the Labour Inspection and Trade Unions from Tajikistan took part, as agreed in the technical cooperation between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.