1. ROMERO, RUSSEL R.
IR 207.2 Labor, Equity and Justice
Dip IR 2013-78244
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE PHILIPPINE AIDS PREVENTION AND CONTROL ACT OF 1998 (RA 8504): ITS
PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES AFFECTING THE EMPLOYMENT OF FILIPINO WORKERS
LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS
1. RHODES, TIM (1996). AIDS, Drugs and Prevention: Perspectives on Individual and
Community Action.
The book is a compilation of different researches, theories and practices of
developing community based HIV/AIDS Prevention. The author explained how
individual actions are influenced by the social, cultural and political framework in
which such actions occur.
Furthermore, the authors of this various research also explore how future HIV
prevention can target changes at the level of the individual or at the level of the
community and wider social environment.
2. HOFFMAN, MARY ANN (1997). HIV Disease and Work: Effect on the Individual,
Workplace and Interpersonal Contexts.
Hoffman reviews the effect of HIV disease on work and employment. It explores
the effect of this disease on the career development and employment of the HIV-
infected individual. Her research swotted on the physical, psycho neurological
and psychosocial aspects of HIV disease that affect the work of individual.
Furthermore, it examined the workplace impact of this dreadful disease on
employers and employees including legal aspects, attitudes towards HIV-infected
persons and workplace stressors and rewards.
Hoffman also cited some recommendations such as flexible normal working
hours for People Living with HIV, compensation and rewards that can
boost the morale of the worker who are infected with the virus.
3. BARBOUR, ROSALINE S. (1994). The Impact of Working with People with HIV/AIDS: A
Review of the Literature
Her research describes and discusses the experiences of professionals and
volunteers who work face-to-face with people with HIV/AIDS. Barbour has
assumed that the demands inherent in AIDS work are self-evident, but has failed
to contextualize AIDS work in relation to other fields of service provision, the
personal circumstances and career paths of workers, and the organizational
structure within which work takes place.

2. The studies have provided very little information about the process of adaptation
to AIDS work and the rewards which may offset some of the stresses and
demands of the work.
4. DEEPA, RAO. et.al (2008). Stigma in the Workplace: Employer Attitudes About People
with HIV/AIDS in Beijing, Hongkong and Chicago
The researchers investigate employers' attitudes and hiring practices towards
people with HIV across three culturally and linguistically distinct cities: Chicago,
Beijing, and Hong Kong. The results shows that employers are reluctant in hiring
people with HIV, but this trend was most pronounced with employers from Beijing
and Hong Kong.
The belief that people with HIV could morally corrupt those around them was a
particular concern of employers from Beijing and Hong Kong. The concerns
about hiring people with HIV in Hong Kong and Beijing may be related to specific
cultural dynamics related to loss of ‘face’, level of contact and knowledge about
people with HIV, and the psychological interconnectedness between people in
society.
In sum, employers in all three cities showed concerns about hiring people with
HIV, but at the same time, their attitudes about discriminating against people with
HIV differed widely across the cities. It only shows that employers are still
hesitant to hire workers who are infected with the virus and it brings stigma and
discrimination in the workplace.
5. ALTMAN, DENNIS (1994). Power and Community: Organizational and Cultural
Responses to AIDS
Altman provides a global assessment of the role of the community sector, also he
observes in detail the origin and activities of community organizations worldwide.
He further describe the impact of sexuality and gender on AIDS activism that
leads to the exploration of cultural responses to the dreadful disease and re-
defining initial governmental responses to the epidemic and directing out political
significance of the organization’s ability to motivate and activate affected
communities.
Likewise, Altman analyses the practical dilemmas which have confronted
community based organizations and management control.
6. RUSHING, WILLIAM (1995). The AIDS Epidemic Social Dimension of an Infection
Disease.
This book of Rushing proved that if the numbers of HIV/AIDS cases were
reduced, medical and economic resources would be saved and the danger. And
this book also attests that before prevention programs can be truly effective, they
must change not only the high risk behavior of high-risk groups but also the
societal reaction of the moral enemies of high risk groups.

3. Furthermore, in this book the author recommends all public health educators
should engage in moral education which may actually undermine support for
programs designed to contain the spread of HIV.
7. INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION (2005). HIV and AIDS and the World of
Work in ASEAN: Report of ILO - ASEAN Study on Initiatives on HIV and AIDS and the
World of Work in the ASEAN Region.
This is a report of ILO regarding the responses of the ASEAN nation in
implementing HIV prevention and control programs in the workplace, law on HIV
prevention and control and codes of practice for employers. ILO also highlights
that the Philippines AIDS Prevention and Control Act (Republic Act 8504)
addresses the principles in the ILO Code of Practice.
However, they discovered that the implementation and sustainability of some
initiatives, in the absence of overseas funding, is an issue that needs to be
addressed. Commitment and involvement of employer federations, employers
and unions, workers need to be enhanced. Stigma and discrimination against
People Living with HIV/AIDS is still prevalent among both employers and
workers.
8. UNAIDS (2005). HIV – Related Stigma, Discrimination and Human Rights Violations:
Case Studies of Successful Programs.
In this report UNAIDS stressed that HIV-related stigma and discrimination and
human rights violations constitute great barriers to preventing HIV infections,
providing care, support and treatment and alleviating the impact of the epidemic.
This article documents case study of successful action addressing HIV related
human rights violations, stigma and discrimination. Altering more effort is
required in every country specifically in the workplace.
9. WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION WHO (1991). AIDS and HIV Infection: Information
for United Nations Employees and Their Families.
World Health Organization (WHO) recommend that pre-employment HIV/AIDS
testing as part of assessing fitness to work is unnecessary and should not be
required, this applies to both direct methods such as HIV testing and indirect
assessment of risk behaviors and questioning the applicant about HIV tests
already taken.
Likewise, they emphasized that HIV infection is not a cause for termination of
employment as with many other illnesses, persons with HIV related illnesses
should be allowed to work as long as they are medically fit for available,
appropriate work.
Lastly, HIV infected employees should not be discriminated against among other
things with respect to their access to and receipt of benefits from statutory social
security programs and occupationally related schemes.

4. 10. HUNTER, SUSAN S. (1991). AIDS in Asia: A Continent in Peril
In this book Hunter detailed the individual, social and global factors driving the
spread of HIV/AIDS in Asia including ineffective political leadership, human
trafficking, social inequalities and gender disparities. She also points a disturbing
picture of the suffering AIDS has caused in ASIA and the nightmare that is about
to unfold and draws her experience in other countries to map out steps that must
be taken to contain it.
According to her last 2004, only 21 percent of corporations had workplace
programs of any kind that’s why she is encouraging greater responsibility in the
private sector.