- Authors
- UNDP Regional HIV and Development Programme, South and North East Asia
- Title
- HIV & You: An HIV/AIDS Awareness Programme Among Migrant Industrial Workers and Surrounding Communities By People Living With HIV/AIDS
- Imprint
- UNDP; Indian Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS, 2004, 21 pp
- Url
- http://www.youandaids.org/unfiles/REACHPublications/HIVandYou.pdf
- Abstract
"This document features "HIV & YOU," an innovative and easily replicable programme targeted at raising awareness of HIV among migrant workers and communities through the involvement of People Living with HIV/AIDS(PLWHA). The programme also aims at mobilising the support of the private sector and promoting Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the region. "HIV & YOU," developed and facilitated by the UNDP Regional HIV and Development Programme, South and North East Asia, in partnership with the Indian Network for People Living with HIV (INP+), acquires particular significance in Asia Pacific because the region witnesses large scale migration of people. Poverty, diminishing choices, denial of rights, and lack of access to information and services make migrant populations particularly vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. This initiative is an effort to address it through innovative partnerships. The key partners in this effort are various groups of people working with medium and small scale industries, particularly migrant and contractual labourers and their communities; the corporate sector; and people living with HIV/AIDS. The key goal is to reach out, not only to the mainstream industrial workforce populations, which are primarily migrants, in these industries, but also to populations that are peripheral to the industry, such as contract labourers, truck drivers and suppliers."