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A decade of an HIV workplace programme in armed conflict zones; a social responsibility response of the International Committee of the Red Cross

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) works in fragile States and in armed conflict zones. Some of them are affected by the HIV pandemic. Within the framework of its social responsibility programme concerning HIV affecting its staff members, the organization has implemented an HIV work...

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Autores principales: Du Mortier, Stéphane, Mukangu, Silas, Sagna, Charles, Nyffenegger, Laurent, Aebischer Perone, Sigiriya
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4886433/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27247611
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12995-016-0119-4
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author Du Mortier, Stéphane
Mukangu, Silas
Sagna, Charles
Nyffenegger, Laurent
Aebischer Perone, Sigiriya
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description The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) works in fragile States and in armed conflict zones. Some of them are affected by the HIV pandemic. Within the framework of its social responsibility programme concerning HIV affecting its staff members, the organization has implemented an HIV workplace programme since 2004. We carried out a retrospective analysis over 10 years. Data collected were initially essentially qualitative and process-oriented, but were complemented over the years by data on annual voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) uptake and on direct annual costs covering awareness, testing and antiretroviral therapy. The number of people covered by the programme grew from none in 2003 to 4,438 in 2015, with an increase in annual VCT uptake over the years increasing from 376 persons (14 %) in 2007 to 2,663 in 2015 (60 %). Over the years, the services were expanded from awareness raising to bringing VCT to the workplace, as well as offering testing and health coverage of other conditions and innovative approaches to facing challenges linked to situations of violence. Within its social responsibility framework, the ICRC has shown the importance and feasibility of a workplace HIV programme in conflict zones. A sustainable workplace programme in these conflict settings requires constant adaptation, with regular follow-up given the relatively high turnover of staff, and ensuring sustainable stocks of condoms and antiretroviral drugs.
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spelling pubmed-48864332016-06-01 A decade of an HIV workplace programme in armed conflict zones; a social responsibility response of the International Committee of the Red Cross Du Mortier, Stéphane Mukangu, Silas Sagna, Charles Nyffenegger, Laurent Aebischer Perone, Sigiriya J Occup Med Toxicol Review The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) works in fragile States and in armed conflict zones. Some of them are affected by the HIV pandemic. Within the framework of its social responsibility programme concerning HIV affecting its staff members, the organization has implemented an HIV workplace programme since 2004. We carried out a retrospective analysis over 10 years. Data collected were initially essentially qualitative and process-oriented, but were complemented over the years by data on annual voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) uptake and on direct annual costs covering awareness, testing and antiretroviral therapy. The number of people covered by the programme grew from none in 2003 to 4,438 in 2015, with an increase in annual VCT uptake over the years increasing from 376 persons (14 %) in 2007 to 2,663 in 2015 (60 %). Over the years, the services were expanded from awareness raising to bringing VCT to the workplace, as well as offering testing and health coverage of other conditions and innovative approaches to facing challenges linked to situations of violence. Within its social responsibility framework, the ICRC has shown the importance and feasibility of a workplace HIV programme in conflict zones. A sustainable workplace programme in these conflict settings requires constant adaptation, with regular follow-up given the relatively high turnover of staff, and ensuring sustainable stocks of condoms and antiretroviral drugs. BioMed Central 2016-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC4886433/ /pubmed/27247611 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12995-016-0119-4 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Mukangu, Silas
Sagna, Charles
Nyffenegger, Laurent
Aebischer Perone, Sigiriya
A decade of an HIV workplace programme in armed conflict zones; a social responsibility response of the International Committee of the Red Cross
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title_full_unstemmed A decade of an HIV workplace programme in armed conflict zones; a social responsibility response of the International Committee of the Red Cross
title_short A decade of an HIV workplace programme in armed conflict zones; a social responsibility response of the International Committee of the Red Cross
title_sort decade of an hiv workplace programme in armed conflict zones; a social responsibility response of the international committee of the red cross
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4886433/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27247611
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12995-016-0119-4
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