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    Workplace Guide for Managers and Labor Leaders (HIV/AIDS)

    Support for Analysis and Research in Africa, USAID, 2002
    This paper provides a step-by-step approach to help workplaces respond to the risks of HIV/AIDS through policies, prevention education, care, and support programs. The manual offers examples, best practices, and references from diverse employers and trade unions all over the world.
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    Developing Workplace HIV/AIDS Policies and Programs: Needs Assessment Guide

    Support for Analysis and Research in Africa, USAID, 2002
    This manual provides information on conducting assessments of needs and resources related to HIV/AIDS programs in the workplace.
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    Measuring HIV/AIDS related stigma: promising practice of stigma-mitigation from across South Africa

    Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2004
    This report from the siyam’kela project looks at three focus areas that play a crucial role in stigma mitigation. The first section looks at how faith-based organisations (FBOs) are influential in shaping values and attitudes to vulnerable people in society as well as developing compassionate responses to social challenges.
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    Addressing stigma and discrimination as a barrier to effective workplace interventions

    Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, 2003
    This document is the report from the ICASA (International Conference of HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa) Skills Building Workshop held in Nairobi in September 2003.
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    Tripartite interregional meeting on best practices in HIV/AIDS workplace policies and programmes: consensus statement

    ILOAIDS, International Labour Organization, 2003
    This ILOAIDS document is the consensus statement from an interregional meeting held in December 2003. The goal of the meeting was to analyse what makes good practice, to share lessons learned and to establish guidelines for actions based on experience. It was recognised that no single action is appropriate or possible in all settings.
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    Perceptions of employers about HIV/AIDS in micro and small enterprises employing women workers: a case study of Harare

    Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, Ethiopia, 2002
    This study seeks to assess the impact of HIV/AIDS on the micro and small enterprise (MSE) sector in Harare, Zimbabwe, by assessing the perceptions of employers and employees.The MSE sector provides employment for a large proportion of the Zimbabwean economically active population.
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    HIV/AIDS and work: global estimates, impact and response, 2004

    International Labour Organization, 2004
    This major report, prepared by the ILO Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work, is intended as a reference tool. Part One provides global estimates of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the world of work and outlines the macroeconomic impact of HIV/AIDS. It looks at the effects of HIV/AIDS on the private sector: the public sector and the informal economy; as well as its impact on women and children.
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    Knowledge of AIDS and HIV risk-related sexual behavior among Nigerian naval personnel

    Health Research Policy and Systems, 2004
    This study published in BMC Public Health describes current knowledge of AIDS, and HIV-risk sexual behaviour of naval personnel in Lagos, Nigeria. Personnel in the military are at increased risk of HIV infection. Although HIV-risk related sexual behaviour of Nigerian police officers has been studied, little is known about the sexual behaviour of their counterparts in the Navy.
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    Women, HIV/AIDS and the world of work

    International Labour Organization, 2004
    About half those living with HIV are women, but women are now becoming infected at a faster rate than men. Many women experience sexual and economic subordination in their personal relationships and at work, and so cannot negotiate safe sex or refuse unsafe sex.
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    Framework for thinking about workplace interventions in response to HIV/AIDS in southern Africa

    Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 2000
    Labour force participation is high in Sub-Saharan Africa and most people are actively employed in some form of production. Economic losses incurred from HIV and AIDS are substantial but difficult to quantify. For example, an individual’s economic behaviour can be expected to pay less heed to a long run that the person may not live to see. Likely results are decreased work effort and savings.

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