Sida Entreprises

• INTER.ACTIF project (AIDES and CGT)
This is a trade unions-associations project which aims at promoting projects in 3 countries (Burkina Faso, Guinea and Niger) for a better understanding of the issue of HIV in the workplace and for stepping up actions against stigmatisation and discrimination.
Joint programmes:
- SIDA-ENTREPRISES is a Council member of the project steering committee;
- SIDA-ENTREPRISES facilitates country meetings due to its contact points and to its knowledge in the field of fighting AIDS in the workplace.
For further information: http://www.aides.org

• Initiative Conseil International (I.C.I)
I.C.I. is a specialised body for carrying-out studies and implementing development projects.
I.C.I. implements the « Programme for training and for providing capacity building for the medical staff employed in 25 enterprises in Burkina Faso for the prevention of STIs and HIV as well as for care provided to infected workers. » (July 2008 - June 2011).
For further information:
Initiative Conseil International - 01 BP 6490 Ouagadougou 01 – Burkina Faso
Tel. : + 226 50 30 88 60 – Fax : + 226 50 31 25 43
Email : ici@fasonet.bf or ici@mail-bf.com

• ILO/AIDS in Burkina Faso
The ILO/AIDS programme for technical cooperation aims at establishing that the workplace plays an important role for eradicating the propagation of the HIV epidemic and for mitigating its impact. All activities which are organised therefore aim at helping the tripartite constituents of the ILO to participate actively to national efforts in order to include the opinions of players from the workplace in national strategic plans and to develop policies and programmes for fighting AIDS in the workplace. The ILO Technical Cooperation implements various projects in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Caribbean (23). Programmes which are underway in Africa are held in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana and South Africa.
In Burkina Faso, the ILO/AIDS project started in 2005 and 26 enterprises are being monitored by the project.
Joint programmes:
- SIDA-ENTREPRISES made it possible for health-care workers who operate within enterprises and who are monitored under the ILO/AIDS Project to register for the «Programme for training and for providing capacity building for the medical staff employed in 25 enterprises in Burkina Faso for the prevention of STIs and HIV as well as for care provided to infected workers ».
- The Advisory Council for the ILO/AIDS project will soon become the National Tripartite Council and will be able to host the coordination unit for the training programme implemented by I.C.I and funded by SIDA-ENTREPRISES.
- David Guiré, the national coordinator for the ILO/AIDS project in Burkina Faso is a member of the committee for the internal coordination unit for the training programme implemented by I.C.I and funded by SIDA-ENTREPRISES.
For further information:
M. David GUIRÉ, national project coordonator for Burkina Faso
Email : guiredavid@yahoo.fr

• OPALS Conseil
OPALS is a medical organisation for international solidarity created in 1988 by experts committed to fighting HIV-AIDS since the identification of the virus during the Fourth International Conference on AIDS. The goals of the association at that time included providing patients from Southern countries with medicinal products which were available in Northern countries. In 1994, OPALS opened its first Mobile Treatment Centre (MTC) in Brazzaville (Congo). Today OPALS operates in Africa and aims at protecting new generations. Its main field of intervention is thus pregnant women and children.
OPALS implements the «Programme for training and for providing capacity building for the medical staff employed in 25 enterprises in Burkina Faso for the prevention of STIs and HIV as well as for care provided to infected workers. » (July 2008 - June 2011).
For further information: www.opals.asso.fr
OPALS – 15/21 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine - 75006 Paris – France
Email: contact@opals.asso.fr
Coordination at headquarters: Solenne Barbe - solenne.barbe@opals.asso.fr
Secretariat: Dr Claude Moncorgé - claude.moncorge@wanadoo.fr

• SIDACTION
Sidaction is a leading French association in the AIDS fight and is also an important player in a number of developing countries. SIDACTION aims at local players involved in fighting AIDS at community level. The support provided by SIDACTION aims at strengthening the sustainability of actions: help for the organisation of care centres, overall care for AIDS patients, access to treatment.
Joint programmes:
- Participation to the SIDACTION convention.
- Intervention by the Deputy Director General during the training session organised by SIDA-ENTREPRISES on the theme « Psychosocial care and the role of community-based associations in Africa ».
For further information: www.sidaction.org
SIDACTION - 228 rue du Faubourg Saint Martin - 75010 Paris - FRANCE
Tel: +33 (0)1 53 26 45 55
Fax:+33 (0)1 53 26 45 75

• ARCAT
ARCAT was created in 1985 and is an association operating in the fields of research, communication and action for access to treatment. It comprises professionals, doctors, social workers, journalists, sociologists, psychologists, lawyers as well as volunteers who combine their skills for fighting AIDS and associated pathologies.
Joint programmes:
- SIDA-ENTREPRISES was the link between ARCAT and the designer Jul who created the drawings for the « table sets » operation on December 1st 2008.
- A number of SIDA-ENTREPRISES member enterprises participated in the « table sets » operation: each year, to celebrate December 1^st, ARCAT distributes free paper table sets signed by a well-known cartoonist to restaurants of enterprises and of public organisations who send a request. This table set is both humorous and informative as it underlines the importance of prevention and of solidarity for seropositive people in the workplace.
For further information: www.arcat-sante.org
ARCAT – 94/102, rue de Buzenval - 75020 Paris - France
Tel: + 33 1 44... - Fax : + 33 1 44 93 29 30
Email: secretariat@arcat-sante.org