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The HIV and AIDS Recommendation, 2010 (No. 200)

Presentation to the Italian Civil Society Forum on HIV/AIDS - Rome, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 12 July 2011

Towards a national HIV/AIDS workplace strategy in the Mashreq countries

Combating HIV/AIDS in the workplace is set to become an integral component of national HIV/AIDS strategies in several Arab countries, notably those participating in ongoing technical consultations with the International Labour Organization.

Feature story

HIV/AIDS training in Russia: “To know means to live”

The 100th Session of the International Labour Conference also marks one year since the adoption of ILO Recommendation No. 200 – the first international human rights instrument to focus specifically on the issue of HIV/AIDS in the world of work. The...

Press release

UN Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS calls for world of work leadership

On Friday 10th June, the United Nations member States recognized the ILO Recommendation concerning HIV and AIDS and the World of Work, 2010 (No. 200) as a key human rights instrument in the global HIV response in the final Declaration of the High...

2500 Young People Newly Infected with HIV Every Day, According to Opportunity in Crisis

Joint publication by UNICEF, UNAIDS, UNESCO, UNFPA, ILO, WHO and The World Bank presents data on adolescents and HIV for the first time

“Opportunities for all”: promoting employment for disabled jobseekers and persons with HIV/AIDS

According to the ILO's new global report on discrimination worldwide, the challenge for enhancing the employability of people with disabilities and HIV/AIDS is significant. Promoting the rights of vulnerable groups, such as workers with HIV/AIDS or...

Kampala: Training Seminar on HIV/AIDS

Combating HIV/AIDS in the workplace in Syria: ILO raises awareness on HIV/AIDS and the world of work in Syria

Syria is striving to combat to HIV/AIDS through the workplace this year, with the launch of an awareness campaign for decision-makers in employers’ organizations, trade unions, and government institutions.

UNAIDS and its cosponsors and UN-Women - Statement to the 55th session of the Commission on the Status of Women

Statement on behalf of the Secretariat of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the cosponsors ILO, UNDP, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNODC, WFP, WHO, as well as UN-Women to address the linkages between HIV, education and employment...

HIV and AIDS and the World of Work

UN Cares India

On 1 December 2010, a van was parked on Lodi Estate, in the city centre of New Delhi, India, with an unusual mandate: to offer voluntary and confidential HIV counselling and testing. The mobile clinic was part of the activities organized jointly by...

HIV/AIDS rate rises in Tajikistan in 2010

Over 1,004 of HIV/AIDS new cases were recorded in Tajikistan in 2010. A source at the Republican AIDS Centre of the Tajik Health Ministry told Asia-Plus that over 280 people, the representatives of various segments of the population, underwent...

Stigma doesn’t discriminate; a reflection on World AIDS Day 2010

By Wade Bromley, Technical Officer on HIV/AIDS, ILO Decent Work Team for East and South-East Asia and the Pacific. December marks both World AIDS Day (1 December) and the International Day of Disabled Persons (3 December). The proximity of these...

Disability and HIV/AIDS -- common causes of workplace discrimination

By Emanuela Pozzan, Coordinator on Disability and Wade Bromley, Technical Officer on HIV/AIDS, ILO Decent Work Team for East and South-East Asia and the Pacific. Women and men with disabilitiies and those living with HIV/AIDS join forces to fight...

World AIDS Day 2010

World AIDS Day 2010 – Workplace policies to tackle HIV and AIDS

In June 2010 the Government, Employer and Worker representatives that make up the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted the first international labour standard to focus specifically on HIV and AIDS. The Recommendation concerning HIV and...

World AIDS Day 2010

How post offices are working to stamp out HIV and AIDS

The international community marks World AIDS Day again this Wednesday. It is almost thirty years since AIDS, caused by the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) first began to have a devastating effect on individual lives, workplaces and societies....

Caring for the carers

International guidelines launched to protect health workers against HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis

New international guidelines launched by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) aimed at protecting health workers from occupational exposure to...

Crisis response

MDGs remain achievable despite setbacks due to the crisis

UN Summit "Keeping the Promise: United to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals" despite global crisis hindering growth and employment

HIV and AIDS and the World of Work

Questions and Answers on the new Recommendation concerning HIV and AIDS and the World of Work

On 17 June 2010, governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations (ILO constituents) made history at the 99th International Labour Conference in adopting, by an overwhelming majority, the first international human rights instrument to focus...

National Policy on HIV and AIDS and the World of Work in India – The Rationale, Process and Lessons Learnt

If You Want HIV Legislation, Ask Labour: How Unions and Employers Contributed to Adoption of the National AIDS Law in Paraguay