- Authors
- Ho Chi Minh City AIDS Committee; Ho Chi Minh City Labor Union; College of Social Sciences and Humanities of HCMC National University; Population Council; Horizons Program
- Title
- Expanding Workplace HIV/AIDS Prevention Activities for a Highly Mobile Population: Construction Workers in Ho Chi Minh City
- Imprint
- Population Council, 2003, 50 pp
- Url
- http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/horizons/vtnmcnstrwrkrsfnl.pdf
- Abstract
"The HIV epidemic in Vietnam is growing, and promotion of prevention behavior among vulnerable populations, such as migrant workers, is becoming increasingly critical. In Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), the locus of the epidemic in Vietnam, efforts have been under way for several years to implement prevention efforts for migrant worker populations. Led by the HCMC AIDS Committee and HCMC Labor Union, the main activity has utilized volunteer health communicators (HC) to visit workplaces and conduct HIV education activities. However, these efforts have reached only a relatively small number of the intended audience, and the impact of the current program is unclear. Local authorities want to scale up their efforts but require information on the most effective and least costly activities, as well as their potential for scale up. The Horizons Program, in conjunction with the Population Council/Vietnam, the HCMC Labor Union, the HCMC AIDS Committee, and the College of Social Sciences and Humanities of HCMC National University, with additional support from the Ford Foundation, compared two programs for highly mobile construction workers: the existing HC workplace program, which utilizes mostly social work students to deliver HIV prevention education, and a new peer education program."
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- UNDP - South East Asia HIV and Development Project, Multisectoral Responses to Mobile Populations' HIV Vulnerability: Examples from People's Republic of China, Thailand and Viet Nam, UNDP - South East Asia HIV and Development Project, Thailand, February 2003, 35 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]