AIDS and The Workplace

Book : AIDS and The Workplace

Language : English

Library : Health-Safety-Environment

Publish Place : Geneva, Switzerland

ISBN : 92-2-108014-5

Publish Date : January 1996

Publisher : International Labour Offıce Geneva

Book Type : Periodical

Book Number : 305

INDEX

Your health and safety at work
AIDS AND THE WORKPLACE
What is in this Module
I. Introduction..................................................................... 1
A. Level of the problem worldwide........................... 3
II. Why AIDS is a trade union issue....................................... 5
III. What is AIDS?................................................................... 7
IV. Workplace exposure........................................................ 24
A. Jobs with an increased risk of exposure................ 25
B. Preventing workplace exposure............................ 28
V. AIDS education in the workplace...................................... 30
VI. AIDS and workplace policy issues................................... 32
VII. Role of the health and safety representative ...................... 35
VIM. Summary........................................................................... 37
Exercise. HIV in the workplace:
Case-study and role play................................................... 38
Glossary............................................................................ 40
Appendix I. Statement from the Consultation on AIDS and the workplace, Geneva, 27-29 June 1988. World Health Organization in association with International Labour Office. Global Programme on AIDS................................. 43
Appendix II. Guidelines on AIDS and first aid in the workplace.
World Health Organization .................................... 46
Appendix III. The Global AIDS strategy.
(World Health Organization,
WHO AIDS Series No. 11)..................................... 51