Panafrican News Agency - November 28, 2001
Organisers said the workshop aimed at "informing and sensitising employers and workers in the water and electricity sectors on HIV/AIDS.
It was also meant to strengthen their capacities to design and implement appropriate policies and programmes at the level of each enterprise, based on the experience of the Ivorian Electricity Company (CIE)".
HIV/AIDS is said to threaten Ivorian society where, official sources said, one teacher dies daily of the pandemic.
The country features among the 15 nations of the world most affected by HIV/AIDS. It recorded one million HIV-positive cases some 420,000 deaths due to AIDS in 2000.
Six water and electricity companies from Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, Senegal and Togo participated in the workshop, organised by UNAIDS and other partners including the ILO.
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