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Why the ITGLWF has launched a special campaign on HIV/AIDS

The overriding theme of 28 April 2002, the International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured Workers, will focus on "Tackling HIV/AIDS Through Workplace Actions for Public Health".

In all the last years AIDS/HIV has emerged as one of the most urgent and pressing workplace issues of our time. Latest estimates report that 23 million working people are suffering from this disease, with 17.5 million in 43 African countries alone, creating a state of emergency that cannot be ignored. Trade unions see HIV/AIDS as a workplace issue not only because it mainly affects people in the prime years of their working lives, but also because the workplace is a suitable venue for programmes for the prevention and care of AIDS.

The themes of public health and protection from HIV/AIDS are obviously important to everybody. However, they are of particular concern to the most disadvantaged of workers, such as workers in the textile, garment and leather industries. That is why the deterioration of public health care greatly affects the people the ITGLWF represents, and demands urgent trade union action.

Accordingly, the International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation has launched a special campaign on HIV/AIDS.

If you click here you find a poster promoting this campaign. We invite you to print as many copies as possible of this poster and to distribute it in the workplace and in other suitable places.

Please feel free to translate the poster into your local language and to add the logo of your organization if you wish.

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