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World AIDS Day 2018

Timely HIV testing is key to workers’ health

Do you know your HIV status? In around 50 countries HIV infections are still rising and everywhere death rates are still too high.

The 2018 World AIDS Day

Eliminating discrimination through non-discriminatory workplace policies

To commemorate this year’s World AIDS Day, the ILO is organizing an interactive discussion in Jakarta regarding the importance of knowing your status and non-discriminatory policies at the workplace. The event will include a radio talkshow on key...

Our impact, their voices

Financial skills open the door to better life and work

Transgender persons still face the highest level of discrimination in society, including access to training and employment opportunities. An ILO training course gave transgender persons the opportunity to improve their financial management skills...

UN Joint Programme on HIV and AIDS, Tanzania

Training of Youth on Entrepreneurship and HIV/AIDS in Singida Region, 12– 23 November 2018

International AIDS Conference 2018

Survey highlights persistent discrimination against people living with HIV

Many people living with HIV lose their jobs or cannot find one because of their HIV status, says study.

Our impact, their voices

“Today, I own my business and I know how to protect myself from HIV infection”

An ILO project in Tanzania helps women to become financially independent while at the same time provides them with training on HIV prevention.

Promoting Programmes on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work in the Far Eastern Federal District

The Primorye Region became a venue for a major interregional workshop “Promoting Programmes on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work in the Far Eastern Federal District”, with the opening ceremony taking place on July 3 in Vladivostok.

Tanzania launches a campaign for HIV Testing countrywide in Dodoma

Prime Minister H.E. Kassim Majaliwa urges Regional and District Authorities to encourage people including at the workplaces to participate in the campaign

Large-Scale HIV/AIDS Prevention Campaign Started at Kurgan Region Enterprises

A large-scale HIV/AIDS prevention campaign scheduled from May 29 to June 1 is underway in the Kurgan Region. It started with a kick-off workshop for HR and health professionals, OSH specialists and unionists at industrial enterprises.

News

AIDS’ Impact on the Labour Force Costs Billions in Lost Earnings: ILO

An ILO report highlights the toll HIV and AIDS continue to take on the labour force, and its economic and social implications. The ILO calls for urgent efforts to close the treatment gaps, step up testing and prevention measures, and ensure workers...

HIV/AIDS

AIDS’ impact on the labour force costs billions in lost earnings: ILO

An ILO report highlights the toll HIV and AIDS continue to take on the labour force, and its economic and social implications. The ILO calls for urgent efforts to close the treatment gaps, step up testing and prevention measures, and ensure workers...

HIV/AIDS

AIDS’ impact on the labour force costs billions in lost earnings

An ILO report highlights the toll HIV and AIDS continue to take on the labour force, and its economic and social implications. The ILO calls for urgent efforts to close the treatment gaps, step up testing and prevention measures, and ensure workers...

Media advisory

ILO to launch new global estimates about HIV and AIDS impact on the world of work

Sida support transforms life in Harare, Zimbabwe

A delegation of Swedish Parliamentarians and members of the United Nations Association of Sweden visit a public-private partnership intervention on the outskirts of Harare.

A Colleague Is HIV-positive. How to React?

The youth forum “Safe Work Generation” opened on April 10 as part of All-Russia OSH Week. Nearly 100 students and postgraduates across Russia gathered in Sochi to share their views on OSH with the elderly generation. The best and most active...

World Tuberculosis Day

"How my job helped me get through the fight against TB"

Tuberculosis (TB), one of the world's leading causes of illness and death, often strikes people in their prime working years. Workplaces have a critical role to play in its prevention, treatment and care.

HIV/AIDS education for maritime students

Ukrainian trade unions and ILO join forces to introduce HIV/AIDS prevention training for seafarers

The Maritime Transport Workers’ Trade Union of Ukraine (MTWTU) in collaboration with the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has facilitated an HIV/AIDS prevention module in the Kherson State Maritime Academy (KSMA), being the first...

Discussing HIV/AIDS with Motivational Speaker Svetlana Izambayeva

'One of our greatest weapons against HIV/AIDS is knowledge. It is part of our HIV/AIDS personnel policy that all United Nations staff should be provided with sufficient, updated information to enable you to protect yourselves and your families from...

VCT@WORK

Testing for HIV at the workplace – on the farm, in the mines and at the hairdressers

Over 4.1 million workers took HIV test in 18 countries as part of ILO’s efforts to fast track HIV testing.

VCT@WORK

More than 4.1 million tested for HIV under VCT@WORK initiative

The Voluntary Counselling and Testing at work (VCT@WORK) initiative has reached over 6 million workers and family members. Of those, more than 4.1 million were tested for HIV and 103,000 referred to access anti retro-viral treatment.