Traduction de «Pearl worker's disease » (Anglais → Français) :

Mr. Speaker, our initiative will focus on training and support for front line health workers, on treating and preventing disease, and on screening for and treating sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV-AIDS.

Asbestos is a particularly dangerous agent which may cause serious diseases and which is found in a large number of circumstances at work. Many workers are therefore exposed to a potential health risk.

The development of a European schedule of occupational diseases has three main aims: to improve knowledge of the subject at European level (collection and comparability of data); to step up prevention: the Member States are asked to define quantified objectives with a view to reducing the rate of these diseases and to provide assistance to the workers concerned to enable them more easily to prove the link between their occupational activities and their disease and apply for compensation.

to promote, in the context of their policies on preventing occupational accidents and diseases, the safety and health of self-employed workers, while taking account of the special risks existing in specific sectors and the specific nature of the relationship between contracting undertakings and self-employed workers.

The amendments ask that the name and nature of an infectious or contagious disease be disclosed to emergency response workers who may have been unknowingly exposed to that disease.

- the reduction of sexual transmission : . education and information programmes, . creation and launching of media campaigns (television, radio, films, etc.), . educational programmes aimed at specific groups, . improvement of programmes to control sexually transmitted diseases (STD) ; - 4 - - the reduction and control of perinatal transmission : . screening of pregnant women, . counselling of seropositive women on the consequences of HIV infection, . advice to seronegative women on how to avoid infection, . screening and counselling of other members of the family where necessary ; - the reduction of transmission through use of contami ...[+++]ned needles, syringes and other skin-piercing instruments : . improvement of standards of professional hygiene, . education of health workers on HIV infection and transmission, . provision of needles and syringes where required, . protection of health workers ; - setting up of surveillance systems to assess the affect of control programmes and the development of the disease ; - supply of material, technical and financial aid to national AIDS control committees ; - participation in the overall assessment of national AIDS control programmes under the aegis of the WHO's SPA ; - the operational research geared to public health which forms part of any national AIDS control programme.