Alice Ouédraogo

Alice Ouédraogo (born 1955) is a Burkinabé public health official. A lawyer by profession she has worked extensively with the International Labour Organization (ILO). Ouédraogo was ILO representative to Cameroon and Ethiopia and also director of its Central Africa region. She is currently head of the ILO HIV/AIDS programme and works to reduce the transmission of HIV and increase the number of people in treatment.

Alice Ouédraogo
Born1955 (age 67–68)
OccupationLawyer
Known forWork for the International Labour Organization

Career

Alice Ouédraogo (née Sorgho) was born in 1955. She is the daughter of Mathias Daogo Sorgho, a member of the territorial assembly of the French Upper Volta (colonial-era Burkina Faso) for Tenkodogo between 1952 and 1959. Sorgho was president of the assembly from 1954 to 1957 and served in various cabinet positions until 1963 during the time Burkina Faso won its independence. He was ambassador to France from 1963 to 1966.[1]

Ouédraogo is a lawyer specialising in international law with experience in Africa and with the United Nations.[2] She was previously a representative for the International Labour Organization (ILO) to Cameroon and Ethiopia.[1][3] She left the role in Cameroon in July 2006 and upon doing so praised Cameroon's Minister of Women's Empowerment and the Family Suzanne Mbomback for her actions to improve the lives of women in the country.[3]

In 2008 Ouédraogo was made director of the ILO's Central African Regional Sub-Office.[1] She subsequently became deputy director of the ILO's Policy Integration Department where is responsibilities (in 2010) included monitoring the ILO's contributions to satisfying the Millennium Development Goals (in particular the first goal "to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger").[4]

Ouédraogo is currently chief of the "HIV/AIDS and the World of Work" programme at the ILO.[2] The programme has, since 2001, run activities for more than 3 million workers and established programmes in more than 70 countries. At least 10 countries have adopted national laws based on the programme's code of practice.[5] Ouédraogo was working towards reaching a target of 15 million people being within AIDS treatment programmes by 2015.[6] The programme under Ouédraogo looked to provide improved employment opportunities to reduce the likelihood of prostitution and unprotected sex and to improve cooperation between the public and private sectors with benefits for corporate image and the use of the private sector's distribution network, publicity and marketing.[7][8] Ouédraogo also looked at the benefits of improving the health of prison staff to reduce the spread of HIV and tuberculosis in detention facilities.[9] She also conducted research into the relationship between HIV treatment rates and employment status; the impact on HIV treatment of restricting the movement of migrants and the use of HIV testing and counselling in the workplace.[10][11] Ouédraogo praised the actions of a number of medical insurance firms in Sri Lanka that removed exclusions from their policies for the treatment of HIV.[12]

Ouédraogo spoke at the International Trade Union Confederation Conference on the Global crisis and aid effectiveness in 2010 and the US Department of Labor HIV/AIDS conference in 2012.[13][14] She was also a judge for the 2014 UN Cares awards.[15]

References
  1. Rupley, Lawrence; Bangali, Lamissa; Diamitani, Boureima (2013). Historical Dictionary of Burkina Faso. Scarecrow Press. p. 202. ISBN 9780810880108. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  2. "Alice Ouedraogo". Huffington Post.
  3. Yufeh, Brenda (28 July 2006). "Cameroon: Alice Ouedraogo Bids Farewell". Cameroon Tribune (Yaoundé). Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  4. "The ILO and the Millennium Development Goals: An Interview with Alice Ouedraogo". International Labour Organisation. 20 September 2010. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  5. "Questions and Answers on 10 Years of the ILO Programme on HIV and AIDS and the World of Work". International Labour Organisation. 1 December 2011. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  6. "Journée mondiale de lutte contre le sida: un prudent espoir est enfin permis". RFI (in French). 1 December 2013. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  7. "Parcerias Público-Privadas são essenciais na resposta ao HIV/Aids". International Labor Organization – Office in Brazil. Archived from the original on 2017-12-03. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  8. Ouedraogo, Alice (2 February 2015). "On the Road to Ending HIV". Huffington Post. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  9. "Turning the tide: not without prisons!". AIDS in Moldova. UNAIDS. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  10. Nachega, Jean B; Uthman, Olalekan A; Peltzer, Karl; Richardson, Lindsey A; Mills, Edward J; Amekudzi, Kofi; Ouédraogo, Alice (1 January 2015). "Association between antiretroviral therapy adherence and employment status: systematic review and meta-analysis". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 93 (1): 29–41. doi:10.2471/BLT.14.138149. ISSN 0042-9686. PMC 4271680. PMID 25558105.
  11. "Key Sessions and Events on HIV and AIDS, the World of Work and Public Private Partnerships (PPP) - 20th International AIDS Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 20–25 July 2014" (PDF). International Trade Union Confederation. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  12. Sharma, Moushumi. "HIV positive people in Sri Lanka to now get health coverage". Down to Earth. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  13. "Institute on HIV/AIDS and Employment An Affiliated Independent Event of the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012)" (PDF). US Department of Labor. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 May 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  14. "Mainstreaming Decent Work as a corner stone of the development strategy facing the global crisis" (PDF). International Trade Union Confederation. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  15. "UN CARES AWARD 2014". UN Cares. 1 December 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
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