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Million dollar grant benefits HIV-positive workers

    JOHANNESBURG
    Employees living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda are set to benefit from a US $1 million grant, the US Department of Labour said in a recent statement. US Labour Secretary Elaine L. Chao said the grant would be used to develop innovative strategies to promote safer, healthier, more productive work environments for the country's HIV-positive workers. Chao said: "This grant programme will provide information that is essential to workers' health and well-being, and aid in the overall effort to eliminate HIV/AIDS." Components of the "HIV/AIDS Workplace Education Programme in Uganda" will include, among other things, prevention education in the workplace, and the development of workplace policies to address the stigma and discrimination associated with the pandemic. "Work sites are common meeting places, which provide prime opportunities for HIV/AIDS education for workers," Chao added.

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