Trade Unions are playing a very big and important role in the fight against HIV/AIDS and other diseases throughout the world; a fight in the workplace as well as outside the workplace.
Prevention is scaling up and treatment is beginning to become more widely available. But we have a long and difficult road ahead of us and a long journey to travel together before we begin to contain the pandemic of HIV/AIDS. The role of the trade unions and their members, I believe, is critical. I would like to congratulate the trade union movement for its leadership in this area and for focusing attention on the challenge of HIV/AIDS. But I believe there is much more that we can do. Let me make four suggestions.
First, mobilize to demand and to support workplace programmes of prevention and treatment.Secondly, I would encourage trade unions to press for membership of the Country Co-ordinating Mechanisms, the CCMs.Thirdly, trade unions must ensure that national legislation prevents and penalizes discrimination on the grounds of HIV status.read more
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