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The Committee takes due note of the detailed information supplied by the Government in reply to its previous direct request.

Article 7 of the Convention. The Committee requests the Government to indicate the measures which have been taken or are envisaged to improve existing laws and regulations on occupational health and safety by adapting them to the special nature of nursing work and of the environment in which it is carried out. Furthermore, with reference to its general observation of 1990, which it reiterated in 1994, the Committee requests the Government to indicate the measures which have been taken or are envisaged, in consultation with the employers' and workers' organizations concerned, to take into account the particular risk of accidental exposure to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among nursing personnel: for example, the arrangement of conditions of work, confidentiality of test results, recognition that the cause of infection was occupational, etc.

Point V of the report form. The Committee notes the statistics supplied by the Government in its last report. It hopes that the Government will continue to supply such statistics, and that it will provide information on the number of persons leaving the occupation. Please also report any difficulties encountered in practice in the implementation of the Convention.