- About UNAIDS
- Our work
- Targets and commitments
- 2011 Political Declaration: Targets and elimination commitments
- Reducing sexual transmission
- Preventing HIV among drug users
- Eliminating new HIV infections among children
- 15 million accessing treatment
- Avoiding TB deaths
- Closing the resource gap
- Eliminating gender inequalities
- Eliminating stigma and discrimination
- Eliminating travel restrictions
- Strengthening HIV integration
- 2011 Political Declaration: Targets and elimination commitments
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is the UN agency with responsibility for the world of work.
AIDS is a workplace issue not only because the virus affects labour and productivity, but also because the workplace has a vital role to play in the wider response to limit the spread and effects of the epidemic.
As a Cosponsor of UNAIDS, and under the UNAIDS division of labour, ILO is the lead agency on HIV workplace policy and private sector mobilization. Because of its tripartite structure, it can mobilize the networks and contacts of governments, employers and workers in 183 countries. The ILO has direct access to the workplace, where action can be taken for prevention and care. It has long experience in protecting the rights of workers, opposing discrimination, and improving occupational safety and health.
The ILO also has global network of field offices, experience in technical cooperation, and capacity for research and information dissemination.
Code of Practice
International labour standard on HIV
The international labour standard on HIV/AIDS and the world of work was adopted by Member States at the 99th session of the ILC in June 2010. It includes a series of proposals with regard to HIV and the world of work.
HIV/AIDS and the World of Work. Report V(2B) (ILO, 2010)
Private sector
- Prevention of HIV/AIDS in the World of Work: A Tripartite Response. A Documentation of Good Practices (ILO, India, 2009)
- Saving lives, protecting jobs: International HIV/AIDS workplace education programme SHARE: Strategic HIV/AIDS Responses in Enterprises, Second Report (ILO, 2008)
- Saving lives, protecting jobs: International HIV/AIDS workplace education programme SHARE: Strategic HIV/AIDS Responses in Enterprises, First Report (ILO, 2006)
- Making co-investment a reality (ILO/GTZ/World Bank/GBC, 2005)
HIV education and advocacy
- A Handbook for People Living with HIV on Advocacy at the Workplace (ILO, India, 2009)
- HIV/AIDS Behaviour Change Communication Toolkit for the Workplace (ILO/FHI, 2006)
Policy and guidance
- HIV and International Labour Migration: Policy brief (ILO/IOM/UNAIDS, 2008)
- ILO training and guidelines
Contact
ILO
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Tel: +41.22.799.6486
Email: ILOAIDS@ilo.org
Learn more
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UNAIDS Strategy 2011-2015
Guided by the UNAIDS Strategy 2011–2015 —the ten Cosponsors and the UNAIDS Secretariat are united in working towards the vision of “Zero new infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS-related deaths.”