two decades of hiv education & support projects with workers and unions how has our work...

Two decades of HIV education & support projects

with workers and unionsHow has our work evolved?

First projects

Philippines, 1989-93, Council for Health & Development

Philippines, 1989-93, Council for Health & Development

Kanaky/New Caledonia

• Working with indigenous health movement ADSPPK

• Context of the independence struggle• First publications in 10 of 36 languages• Role of Kerrie Arabena & Australian

indigenous HIV workers

1991 South African Unions & AIDSunions developing policy & programs

Zambia: rural youthloss of students, teachers, integration of HIV into culture

Vietnam

• National AIDS Council study tour to Australia & Thailand, 1992

• Non-judgemental IEC with:• Women’s Union, 31 provinces 1994-97• Vietnam General Federation of Labour, 1994-96• Hanoi Teacher’s Retraining College: curriculum &

television soap opera, 1994-96• Pilot projects, eg. Ba Dinh district in Hanoi, 1994-95•

Hanoi AIDS Committee, 1995

Vietnam Women’s Unionyouth booklet on HIV, 1997

Vietnam Women’s Unionbooklet on HIV, 1995

Vietnam Women’s Union 1996, explicit posters for rural clinics

Vietnam Women’s Union

VGCL: Thanh Hoa Fed. of Labour, 1996Modelled on Australian union materials: work safe, play safe,

for workers in trade union guest houses and their guests

VGCL: Thanh Hoa FoL, 1996

Cambodia

• Including sexual & reproductive health and HIV in vocational training

• Unions & HIV• Cambodian Women’s Development Agency

and Cambodian Prostitutes’ Union• Entertainment Workers

CambodiaKim Song leading HIV education session

Cambodia: APHEDA, ILO & UnionsPoster about solidarity against HIV with faces of officers

from all union federations and unions

Cambodiainfo for Khmer and Vietnamese sex workers: “women’s health”

Cambodiainfo for Khmer and Vietnamese sex workers

Cambodiainfo for Khmer and Vietnamese sex workers: “women’s health”

Cambodiaprostitutes organise for their rights

Cambodia: entertainment workers, role plays on occupational safety and HIV education

Philippines

PAFPI: support for people living with HIV,

education for migrant workers

Philippines: PAFPI provides pre-departure education for migrant workers

Philippines

Lao PDR: Lao Federation of Trade Unions

• Occupational health & safety/HIV, construction, factory & timber workers

• HIV education with hotel workers with ILO

HIV education with Lao workers

HIV education with Lao security workers

Hotel workers

South Africa

• HIV & Community development projects• HIV & rural women in five districts• Sexual violence in the workplace• COSATU education, shop-stewards' handbook,

& advocacy• Treatments Action Campaign• Community projects meeting needs of

orphans and vulnerable children

Winterveldt AIDS Projecta large squatter township near Pretoria/Tshwane metro

Vukani centre, Winterveldt

Rural Women’s Movement HIV education & support in five rural communities

COSATU union delegates’ HIV education handbook 2002 (30,000 copies)

COSATU poster maintaining solidarity against HIV discrimination, 2001

Unions demonstrate for treatmentsgarment & textile workers in Cape Town

South African unions support mass social mobilisation for treatments access, that gives positive impact world-wide.

Zackie Achmat with Madiba

Women with HIV working as carpenters recycling wood for furniture, in Missionvale squatter camp, Nelson Mandela Bay Metro/Port Elizabeth

Mineworkers at World AIDS Day rally,

South Africa’s North West Province

Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions: Clementine Dehwe runs ”couples” workshops to empower

women and men workers to become HIV education and resource people among younger workers

Thai-Burma border

• Primary health care (with Shan Clinic and Mae Tao clinic)

• Health promotion for refugee/migrant workers, with MAP

Thai-Burma border

Papua New GuineaHETURA HIV education project for all unions, supported by

Australian unions

Vietnam: Australian unions support district clubs of people living with HIV (eg, Kinh Mon dist.).

People with HIV are accessing treatments and want to be reintegrated into the workforce.

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