Your Health and Safety at Work: A Collection of Modules - Aids and the Workplace (ILO, 1996, 84 p.): Goal of the Module

Your Health and Safety at Work: A Collection of Modules - Aids and the Workplace (ILO, 1996, 84 p.)

		(introduction...)
		Preface
		Acknowledgements
		Goal of the Module
		Objectives
		I. Introduction
		II. Why AIDS is a trade union issue
		III. What is AIDS?
		IV. Workplace exposure
		V. AIDS education in the workplace
		VI. AIDS and the workplace policy issues
		VII. Role of the health and safety representative
		VIII. Summary
		Appendix I. Policy principles and components: 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.
		Appendix II. World Health Organization Guidelines on AIDS and first aid in the workplace
		Appendix III. The Global AIDS strategy, World Health Organization (WHO AIDS Series No. 11).
		Back Cover

Goal of the Module

This Module provides trainees with basic information that is known at this time on the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), including why it is a trade union issue. The Module also contains information on how the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes the disease, is transmitted and how it is not transmitted, methods of prevention and policy issues. The question of discrimination in the workplace is discussed as well as the role of the health and safety representative in dealing with HIV/AIDS-related issues in the workplace.