A/HRC/10/47 page 12 the updated 2006 International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, particularly guideline 4, and as follow-up, the UNAIDS secretariat and UNDP published a policy brief on the criminalization of HIV transmission, urging Governments to limit criminalization to cases of intentional transmission, i.e. where a person knows his or her HIV-positive status, acts with the intention to transmit HIV, and does in fact transmit it.6 30. In January 2008, UNAIDS also created the International Task Team on HIV-related travel restrictions which operated as an advisory/technical group, with broad representation. Its purpose was to draw attention to such restrictions on national, regional and international agendas, calling for and supporting efforts toward their elimination. The report of the findings and recommendations of the Task Team was presented to the Board of the Global Fund to Fights AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in November 2008,7 and the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board in December 2008.8 B. International Labour Organization 31. The work of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in the context of HIV focuses on rights linked to the workplace and to employment. ILO promotes and protects rights through the 10 key principles of the ILO code of practice on HIV/AIDS and the world of work, which provides a framework for standard-setting, advisory and technical cooperation activities with Governments, employers and workers in member States. The experience of the ILO in the seven years since the code of practice was approved is that measures taken at the workplace usually respect the code, but some of its principles are at times omitted from policies. A major issue has been HIV testing and confidentiality. In the interest of strengthening the workplace response to HIV/AIDS, the ILO Governing Body took a decision to work towards the adoption of a new international labour standard on HIV/AIDS which will be considered in 2009 and 2010 at the International Labour Conference. A study undertaken by the ILO in 2007 on law and practice relating to HIV/AIDS and the world of work, found that out of the 181 member States of the ILO, 169 had taken action to respond to HIV/AIDS by adopting a general national policy/strategy. 6 Further information can be found in the policy brief at: http://data.unaids.org/pub/ BaseDocument/2008/20080731_jc1513_policy_criminalization_en.pdf. 7 See Board Decision Point GF/B18/DP22 available online at: http://80.80.227.107/documents/ board/18/GF-BM18-DecisionPoints_en.pdf. 8 See UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board Decision of 16 December 2008 at: http://www.unaids.org/en/AboutUNAIDS/Governance/PCBArchive/23rd_PCB_Meeting_ December_2008.asp. To access the report of the International Task Team on HIV-related Travel Restrictions: findings and recommendations, see: http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/ 2008/20081017_itt_report_travel_restrictions_en.pdf.

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