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"The international community marks World AIDS Day again this Wednesday. It is almost thirty years since AIDS, caused by the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) first began to have a devastating effect on individual lives, workplaces and societies. Currently, about 33 million people are living with the virus globally. There are another 7,500 new cases of infection every single day. Workplaces can play a key role in the HIV response according to the first international labour standard on HIV and AIDS adopted by the ILO last June".



To read the ILO recommendation concerning HIV/AIDS and the World of Work adopted - by an overwhelming majority - by governments, employers’ and workers’ representatives from ILO member States at the International Labour Conference in June 2010 please click here. The text is available in English, Bahasa Indonesia, Japanese, Spanish, French, Russian and Arabic.



To download the ILO 2010 World AIDS Day posters click here