The International Labor Organization will adopt a code of conduct barring the discrimination of people with AIDS in the workplace. The I.L.O. policy urges governments, employers and workers’ organizations to turn several of the policy’s provisions into law. AIDS virus experts say that it is important to deal with the disease in the workplace for economic, medical and social reasons.
See "Code Would Protect Employees with H.I.V.", Barbara Crossette, The New York Times, June 21, 2001