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Workplace Guide for Managers and Labor Leaders

Publication Date

2004

Summary

Published by AED (Academy for Educational Development), the Workplace Guide aims to provide a thorough, step-by-step approach to help workplaces respond effectively to HIV/AIDS. The Guide is available online on the SMARTWork website.

The Workplace Guide describes how to create an HIV/AIDS workplace policy and programme with the full involvement of both business and labor representatives. "Though it can be difficult to bring business and labor representatives to the table, doing so creates the best potential for workplace programs to be comprehensive, credible to workers, and sustained over time."

In addition to the Workplace Guide, there are many other tools and resources available on the SMARTWork website including sample workplace posters and IEC/BCC (information, education, and communication, or behavior change communication) educational materials, company policies, and country studies.

"Since 2001, when SMARTWork was launched with funding from the United States Department of Labor (DOL) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the program has assisted business managers, labor representatives, and regular workers from dozens of organisations to establish policies and programs that are reaching and benefiting tens of thousands of workers."

Although it is currently available only in English, it will soon be available in Spanish, French, Russian, and Vietnamese.

Languages

English

Contact

Matthew W Roberts, Ph.D.
Project Director, SMARTWork
Center on AIDS & Community Health (COACH)
Academy for Educational Development
1825 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20009 USA
Tel. 202/884-8358
Fax. 202/884-8474
smartwork@aed.org
AED website

Source

AF-AIDS eForum, September 13 2004.


Placed on the Communication Initiative site September 15 2004
Last Updated September 15 2004

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