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Clothing and textile union in vigorous HIV/AIDS programme
Congress of South African Trade Unions Press Release. May 24, 2002.
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The Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union (SACTWU) has set aside R4-million for this year to fund the execution of its HIV/AIDS policy, adopted by its National Executive Committee over the last weekend.
SACTWU's new policy will commit the union to, among others, provide HIV/AIDS education to shopstewards, membership and dependants.
Dr Feroza Mansoor, who will be assisted by three nurses and a social worker, has been appointed by the union to head the programme.
The union said the successful execution of this policy programmes will require partnership with interested parties the reason why they have formed strategic partnership with the AIDS lobby group Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).
It said it would be establishing relations with government and other active formations such as the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban.
SACTWU emphasised that the major part of the programme shall be education, which will be conducted along the lines of the popular 'Abstain-Be faithful-Condomise' (ABC) approach.
The vigorous programme will reach the union's 800 shopstewards and the entire 140 000 members and families countrywide.
"During November [this year], Sactwu will run a month long HIV/AIDS focus in the run up to World AIDS Day.
During this month long period, at least 30 minutes of every constitutional meeting at branch, local, regional and national level will be used to address HIV/AIDS awareness.
The programme will also encourage voluntary testing and counselling among workers and their dependants as well as providing treatment and Nevirapine to pregnant women.
The much-debated anti-AIDS drug, which is aimed at reducing transmission of the virus from mother to child, will be provided in all provinces where the state fails to do so. |
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