All publications: Health and social services

Guide to mainstreaming gender in workplace responses to HIV and AIDS

This tool is intended to provide guidance on mainstreaming gender in world of work-related initiatives addressing HIV. It is designed for a wide range of stakeholders, especially ILO constituents – governments, and employers' and workers'...

Social Protection Floor Initiative: Manual and Strategic Framework for Joint UN Country Operations

A guide to a global and coherent social policy that promotes nationally defined strategies protecting a minimum level of access to essential services and income security for all.

Indonesian employment development

This book, published in conjunction with the President of Indonesia’s visit to the 100th International Labour Conference, presents the development of employment in Indonesia and the evolution of the Government’s policies concerning this sector.

A Guidance Note: How Best to Develop a National Policy on HIV and AIDS and the World of Work

The HIV and AIDS Recommendation, 2010 (No. 200) - calls on ILO member States to develop, in consultation with organizations of employers and workers, national policies and programmes on HIV and AIDS and the world of work, where these do not already...

The Joint WHO-ILO-UNAIDS policy guidelines on improving health workers’ access to HIV and TB prevention, treatment, care and support...

Health workers often lack adequate access to preventive measures such as personal protective supplies or equipments as well as treatment access. The Joint WHO-ILO-UNAIDS 14-point policy guidelines have been developed to respond to this need and...

Recommendation concerning HIV and AIDS and the World of Work, 2010 (No. 200)

The Recommendation concerning HIV and AIDS and the World of Work, 2010 (No. 200) is the new labour standard is the first human rights instrument to focus on HIV and AIDS in the world of work, and was adopted - by an overwhelming majority - by...

ILO and corporate social responsibility (booklet)

Based on the three priorities under the Decent Work Country Programme, the ILO, in close collaboration with its tripartite constituents, has developed the following main programmes and activities in Indonesia. Some of the programmes can also add...

Improving health workers’ access to HIV and TB prevention, treatment, care and support services

Joint WHO/ILO policy guidelines on improving health worker access to prevention, treatment and care services for HIV and TB

The primary purpose of these guidelines is to draw together previously developed clinical and policy guidelines, along with recent evidence, into a coherent set of recommendations that aim to provide improved access of health workers to HIV and TB...

The Landscape of Microinsurance in Africa

Microinsurance Innovation Facility - Microinsurance Paper No. 4 (Electronic resource)

ILO publications - catalogue 2010

ILO Foreign Rights Catalogue 2010

Update: March 2010 - International labour standard on HIV/AIDS and the world of work

On the right track – Facilitators’ guide

This booklet provides a guide to the education methods that should be used with the toolkit. It will help you to run training programmes aimed at changing behaviour in the railway industry so that risky practices can be reduced. It explains the...

On the right track – Learning materials

This booklet contains learning activities, games and role plays for use in education and awareness-raising programmes.

On the right track – Fact Sheets

There are many myths and misconceptions about HIV/AIDS. This booklet is a set of eight fact sheets explaining the facts.

On the right track – HIV/AIDS: A resource book

This booklet looks at the impact of HIV/AIDS – how it is a threat to railway enterprises and how railway workers are particularly vulnerable to the infection. It also explains about the social partners in the railway industry, namely workers and...

Good Practices in Providing Integrated Employment and Social Services in Central and Eastern Europe

The fight against poverty and social exclusion is a central concern of the EU (European Union) and the Member States. The EU employment guidelines have, since the launch of the European Employment Strategy in 1997, focused on prevention of overall...

Issue brief # 1

Social Care Needs and Service Provision in Arab States: Bringing Care Work into Focus in Lebanon

This Issue Brief is part of a series that examines women’s labour force participation in Arab States using gender equality and workers’ rights perspectiveز

ESS Paper Series No. 1

Achieving health insurance for all. Lessons from the Republic of Korea

Republic of Korea [Kwon, 2002] which has gradually extended compulsory health insurance to all workers over a period of 12 years (from 1977 to 1989): wage earners of large corporations with more than 500 workers were first to be covered, government...