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New ILO report

ILO: Employment crucial for successful HIV/AIDS treatment

New ILO study finds that people with jobs are more likely to keep to HIV treatment.

ILO to launch new report on employment and HIV/AIDS treatment

ILO encourages workers to know their HIV satus at the 11th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP)

The ILO is organizing and participating in a series of events to highlight the importance of workplace actions and policies to ensure workplaces are free from stigma and discrimination and encourage workers to know their HIV status at the occasion...

Workplace voluntary HIV testing programme launched in Thailand

Voluntary HIV Counselling and Testing (VCT) programme, which aims to support reduction of HIV infections in Thailand, was launched on 15 November 2013 by the ILO, UNAIDS and the Thailand Business Coalition on AIDS. The innovative programme -...

Workplace programme to promote voluntary HIV testing launch

An innovative programme to support reduction of HIV infections in Thailand will be launched by the ILO, UNAIDS and the Thailand Business Coalition on AIDS on 15 November. The programme, entitled VCT@WORK, will encourage 100,000 workers to undergo...

AU Opening address - Joint Consultative Workshop on HIV interventions in AU Peace Support Operations

ILO Remarks - Joint Consultative Workshop on HIV interventions in AU Peace Support Operations

The launch of the Corridor Economic Empowerment Innovation Fund (CEEIF), Dar es salaam Tanzania

The ILO-Sida HIV&AIDS vulnerability Reduction and Economic Empowerment project will launch a Corridor Economic Empowerment Innovation Fund (CEEIF) on Wednesday 18th September 2013, a facility meant to address the needs of vulnerable groups of women,...

HIV prevention

Backing young entrepreneurs in Malawi helps reduce HIV risk

How an ILO programme in Malawi supports hundreds of young people facing high risks of HIV infection to become entrepreneurs.

Tripartite partners in Kazakhstan sign memorandum of understanding on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work

In May tripartite partners in Kazakhstan – representatives of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, the Ministry of Health, the Federation of Trade Unions of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the National Economic Chamber of Kazakhstan Atameken...

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

HIV/AIDS

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.

Speech of Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS, at the Launch of ILO/UNAIDS VCT@Work Initiative

Launch of a landmark global initiative on HIV in the world of work.

UNAIDS and the ILO to launch new initiative to provide 5 million working women and men with Voluntary and confidential HIV Counselling and Testing (VCT@WORK) by 2015

102nd International Labour Conference

Launch of a landmark global initiative on HIV in the world of work

UNAIDS and the ILO to launch new initiative to provide 5 million working women and men with Voluntary and confidential HIV Counselling and Testing (VCT@WORK) by 2015.

From Chile

Indigenous communities take their place in the HIV battle

The ILO and indigenous communities in Chile team up to battle discrimination and implement HIV guidelines in the transport sector.

Jordan adopts policy to tackle HIV and AIDS at work, a first in the Arab region

National policy aims to end stigma and discrimination against workers living with HIV and to protect their rights at work.

Safety briefing of marine cadets: HIV/AIDS education

Swaziland

Getting across the message on male circumcision and HIV in the workplace

Many Swazi men have decided to get circumcised to reduce their risk of contracting HIV, after attending workplace information sessions organised by the ILO.

Minister says 4,500 HIV-positives logged in Tajikistan