Training for seafarers and port workers on HIV/AIDS and workplace policy
Tripartite partners, seafaring participants and port workers are invited to learn how to reduce their risk and also enhance their responsibility as parents, partners, community leaders and educators to spread the knowledge of HIV to their own families, friends and communities. Unions also have a role to play in ensuring that HIV is understood as a workplace issue and endeavour to promote decent work and human dignity in a world of work that is faced by HIV & AIDS, STIs, sexual harassment and gender inequalities.
The ILO encourages a balance of women and men participants from its tripartite partners and stakeholders.
The 2-day training will include:
1. An overview of the HIV epidemic in the Pacific and the social and economic impact of HIV&AIDS, and how it changes the face of the labour force, labour market, social security and health benefits, decreases productivity and profits, and increases even more the vulnerability of the informal economy.
2. Information on HIV basics, changing behaviour, including the use of condoms; exploring the participants’ knowledge about HIV and STI issues that may arise in the workplace and learning from policies, strategies, tools with particular reference to the 10 principles in the ILO COP and Recommendation 200.
3. Highlights of the general rights and responsibilities of government and its relevant authorities, employers’ and workers’ representatives under the principles of Universal Precautions, and reviewing strategies and procedures for risk control for HIV infection and occupations where hazards exist.
4. Reducing HIV-related workplace discrimination and stigma, engaging with people living with HIV, promoting gender equality and integrating workplace interventions in National AIDS Strategies.
5. Focusing on seafarers who are highly vulnerable to HIV transmission as their occupation calls for continuous travel to numerous destinations in different countries.
6. Group work will include the actual drafting of a workplace policy for HIV& AIDS, if it does not exist in the organization.
The ILO encourages a balance of women and men participants from its tripartite partners and stakeholders.
The 2-day training will include:
1. An overview of the HIV epidemic in the Pacific and the social and economic impact of HIV&AIDS, and how it changes the face of the labour force, labour market, social security and health benefits, decreases productivity and profits, and increases even more the vulnerability of the informal economy.
2. Information on HIV basics, changing behaviour, including the use of condoms; exploring the participants’ knowledge about HIV and STI issues that may arise in the workplace and learning from policies, strategies, tools with particular reference to the 10 principles in the ILO COP and Recommendation 200.
3. Highlights of the general rights and responsibilities of government and its relevant authorities, employers’ and workers’ representatives under the principles of Universal Precautions, and reviewing strategies and procedures for risk control for HIV infection and occupations where hazards exist.
4. Reducing HIV-related workplace discrimination and stigma, engaging with people living with HIV, promoting gender equality and integrating workplace interventions in National AIDS Strategies.
5. Focusing on seafarers who are highly vulnerable to HIV transmission as their occupation calls for continuous travel to numerous destinations in different countries.
6. Group work will include the actual drafting of a workplace policy for HIV& AIDS, if it does not exist in the organization.