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Two decades of HIV education & support projects with workers and unions How has our work evolved?. First projects. Philippines, 1989-93, Council for Health & Development. Philippines, 1989-93, Council for Health & Development. Philippines, 1989-93, Council for Health & Development.
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Two decades of HIV education & support projects with workers and unions How has our work evolved?
First projects 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
Vietnam Women’s Union 1996, explicit posters for rural clinics
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
Cambodia • Including sexual & reproductive health and HIV in vocational training • Unions & HIV • Cambodian Women’s Development Agency and Cambodian Prostitutes’ Union • Entertainment Workers
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: “women’s health”
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
Lao PDR: Lao Federation of Trade Unions • Occupational health & safety/HIV, construction, factory & timber workers • HIV education with hotel workers with ILO
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
Rural Women’s MovementHIV 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
Papua New Guinea HETURA 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.