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For the fourth year running the ITF is calling on its’ affiliates to mark World AIDS Day on 1st December. Due to the nature of their work in some areas, transport workers have been shown to be at higher risk of contracting HIV/AIDS.
As transport unions our challenge is to address this problem which fundamentally affects us all.
The focus of this years’ campaign is to:
HIV/AIDS has a triple impact on the transport sector. It affects the transport workers, their families, communities, the enterprise concerned and the economy as a whole. Some groups of workers are particularly more vulnerable to acquiring and transmitting HIV infection because of the nature and conditions of the work. Transport workers are such a group-whether they work on land, sea or air routes. Although transport workers all over the world are vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, little attention has been paid to reducing that vulnerability. It is now well established that without the active involvement of transport workers and their unions, it is impossible to develop a viable response to the pandemic.
Starting from World AIDS Day, 1st December 2006, the ITF has been asking all its unions to join in a long-term campaign to get involved in HIV/AIDS programmes and activities to prevent future infections and provide care and support to infected members and their families.
The objectives of this campaign have been to move HIV/AIDS into unions core programmes and activities and to encourage unions to lobby to establish HIV as a workplace issue. The ITF strongly believes that, with the organisational strength of over 600 affiliated unions in 142 countries, we can make a difference and keep transport workers and their families healthy and safe from HIV/AIDS.
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