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The Committee notes that the Government's report contains no reply to previous comments. It hopes that the next report will include full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

Article 2, paragraphs 1 and 2, of the Convention. Please provide statistical data on the number of persons entering the profession annually, the number of nursing personnel by category and by grade, the proportion of nursing personnel in relation to other workers in the health sector, and the geographic distribution in the regions and departments, including overseas departments (Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Reunion).

Article 7. The Committee notes circular DSS/AT No. 93-32 of 23 March 1993 specifying the methods of implementing the regulations set out in Decree No. 93-74 of 18 January 1993 and the Order of 18 January 1993, which establish a new procedure for the coverage under employment injury legislation of workers who have contracted the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). It asks the Government to state to what extent the above-mentioned circular and regulatory texts apply in the overseas departments. Furthermore, referring to its general observation of 1990, which it repeated in 1994, the Committee asks the Government to indicate the measures taken or under consideration, in consultation with the employers' and workers' organizations concerned, to take account of the particular risk among nursing personnel of accidental exposure to HIV: for example, working conditions, confidentiality of test results, acknowledgement that the cause of the infection was occupational, etc. Please also state the conditions under which these measures are extended to the overseas departments.

Part V of the report form. The Committee expresses the hope that the Government will be able to provide information on persons leaving the profession.