All news: HIV/AIDS

Integrating HIV and AIDS in Occupational Safety and Health Programmes: the Costa Rican Experience

Analysis of the Tajik Legislation: Issues Related to HIV and AIDS and the World of Work

How Much Does Business Really Bring to HIV Response? Quantifying In-Kind and Financial Contributions of the Private Sector

Improving the Social and Economic Situation of Women Vulnerable to HIV or Living with the Virus through Micro-finance in Cameroon

Mobile Shades: A Time and a Place for HIV and AIDS Education in the Daily Life of Tea Pickers, Mulanje District, Malawi

Informed and Empowered: Guyana Sex Workers Mobilize for Effective HIV Prevention for Loggers and Surrounding Communities

The Forgotten MARP: Effective Programmes for Clients of Sex Workers through the Workplace

Employment Creation for People Living with HIV and AIDS: Lessons Learned from Nepal

Helping Working Women to Keep Themselves Safe in Senegal

Socialization of ILO Recommendation: Workers’ Social Security and Health: Integrated TB and HIV Prevention and Treatment at the Workplace

A national workshop addressing on Workers’ Social Security and Health : Integrated TB and HIV Prevention and Treatment at the Workplace held on Tuesday, 29 June, in Arya Duta Hotel, Jakarta.

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ILO conference adopts unprecedented new international labour standard on HIV and AIDS

Governments, employers and workers meeting at the annual conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO) today adopted a new international labour standard on HIV and AIDS - the first international human rights instrument to focus...

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Learn about it at work: an HIV poster campaign in Russia

The proposed new standard on HIV/AIDS that is under discussion at the International Labour Conference is not only the first international human rights instrument to focus explicitly on HIV/AIDS. It also contains provisions on prevention programmes...

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ILO to vote on new international labour standard on HIV and AIDS

The annual conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO) will vote on Thursday 17 June on a new international labour standard on HIV and AIDS and the world of work.

Empowering women living with HIV in Ethiopia

Feature stories on HIV/AIDS and the world of work

HIV/AIDS and the world of work

Questions and Answers on the proposed Recommendation on HIV/AIDS and the world of work

The year’s International Labour Conference will see the second, and final discussion on the development of a labour standard on HIV/AIDS and the world of work. If adopted, the recommendation will be the first international human rights instrument on...

Social Mobilization for the Reduction of HIV Employment-Related Discrimination in Burkina Faso

Rebuilding lives : from despair to determination

By Neelam Agnihorti, Communication and Information Officer, ILO Subregional Office for South Asia Suresh’s life came to a standstill when he learnt of his HIV+ status three years back. A well educated young man in his early thirties, Suresh had a...

World AIDS Day

‘Coming out’ from isolation, stigma and discrimination in the Caribbean

The world’s current economic woes have already forced some governments to curtail HIV/AIDS programmes. This is why World AIDS Day focuses on universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support as a fundamental human right this year....

World Aids Day - 1st December 2009

ILO Director-General says HIV/AIDS programmes crucial in crisis response

The ILO’s Global Jobs Pact adopted earlier this year to address the global economic and jobs crisis, can play a crucial role in an effective workplace response to the impact of the crisis on people living with HIV/AIDS, ILO Director-General Juan...