Helen Prytherch and Kaspar Wyss
Switzerland faces an HIV epidemic that is concentrated among certain groups, including migrants from high‐prevalence countries. This study explores the HIV/AIDS knowledge of…
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Switzerland faces an HIV epidemic that is concentrated among certain groups, including migrants from high‐prevalence countries. This study explores the HIV/AIDS knowledge of professionals providing asylum and integration services at cantonal level, with a view to optimising the role they can play in HIV prevention. Data was collected by means of a self‐administered questionnaire; 266 of the 368 professionals (72%) approached responded. Answers were analysed with regard to the respondent's sex, age, workplace and geographical location. General HIV/AIDS knowledge is sound, although there are deficits regarding the vulnerability of migrants. Staff working for non‐governmental organisations are significantly more likely (39%) to attach high importance to HIV/AIDS than civil servants (25%). They are also significantly more likely to have undergone training in HIV/AIDS (25% compared with 15%). Respondents from the German parts of Switzerland are significantly more likely (75%) than those from Romandie and Tessin (48%) to feel sufficiently well informed to be able to address the HIV/AIDS needs of migrants.Professionals providing asylum and integration services could be familiarised more systematically with HIV/AIDS policy documents and with the HIV/AIDS projects and materials in place for migrants. There is also scope to institutionalise targeted training and knowledge management opportunities better.
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Two events caused the world of Swiss tourism to sit up and take notice in 1988: the rejection of the collective employment agreement in the hotel industry by the delegates of the…
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Two events caused the world of Swiss tourism to sit up and take notice in 1988: the rejection of the collective employment agreement in the hotel industry by the delegates of the Swiss Hotel‐Association and the turbulence in the Kuoni travel firm in connection with the replacement of Jack Bolli by Michel Crippa at the head of the Kuoni AG, which is considered to be an international front‐runner firm.