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Transport workers join anti-Aids campaign
A global anti-Aids campaign is launched by transport workers worldwide to coincide with World Aids Day today (Friday).
Member unions of international union federation ITF are joining the initiative to combat the disease.
The campaign promotes HIV prevention through education, film and radio, and supports and campaigns for counselling and testing facilities, for anti-retroviral drugs and against prejudice.
Dr Asif Altaf, ITF global HIV/Aids project co-ordinator, said: “Some groups of workers, including those in transport, are put at particular risk because of the nature of their work. This is what’s behind the ITF’s ongoing effort in this area, of which this campaign is the latest – and biggest – example.
“For years Aids was seen as a medical problem, but now it is recognised just how deeply it is influenced by social, economic and political factors. We hope that World Aids Day will provide a way of taking the messages of prevention, treatment and support into the workplaces where it has not always been heard.”
ITF general secretary David Cockroft commented: “For several years the ITF has been at the forefront of Aids work involving transport workers and this year we are working closely with the World Aids Campaign and with our sister global union federations. With them we will have a particular focus on pushing the message of ‘Universal Access to HIV services in the workplace by 2010’.”
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