Ruby speaks on the WB's HIV/AIDS Workplace program
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Ruby Singh, the HIV/AIDS Workplace Coordinator in the New Delhi office attended a meeting on April 17, 2007 in New Delhi, India organized by ASSOCHAM - The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India on "National Health Summit on Enhancing Corporate Health - The Global Perspective". The meeting focused on global health syndromes, workplace health vulnerability, corporate fitness and other health related issues. Speakers stressed the need for management of anger & stress, yoga practice, abstinence from tobacco, spiritual practices, heart fitness, obesity and health insurance; on the whole, the stress was on preventive health care with promoting wellness - both in mind and body.
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Representing the Bank, Ruby expressed surprise and disappointment that the looming issue of HIV/AIDS - at workplace and at large - had not been discussed. She explained her role as the workplace coordinator to facilitate HIV awareness and reduce the stigma and discrimination related to HIV in the workplace. She also spoke on the emphasis that is attached to work-life balance in the Bank.
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Ruby also participated in July 2007, in the interactive session with National Women Forum of Indian Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS. The women addressed their problems to celebrity guests - Mr. Rahul Gandhi, Member of Parliament, and Mr. Oscar Fernandes (MP Parliamentary Forum Coordinator for HIV/AIDS) regarding provision of shelters, second line ARV and insurance issues.  Most women present there had been rendered homeless following the death of their husbands - due to AIDS - and on their testing positive. There were also some women who had been denied claims form their insurance companies on the death of the husband despite the fact that they had insurance coverage. The women representatives were very concerned about the plight of children, who were turned away from the schools as their parents were either positive or the children had tested positive.
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