230. As regards the HIV / AIDS, according to the National AIDS Secretariat, GuineaBissau, is one of the few countries with incidence of both types of human
immunodeficiency virus, namely HIV1 and HIV2, with prevalence rates tending to be
higher in HIV positive cases1. The prevalence of HIV among people aged 15-49
years is 3.7%.
231. The Guinea Bissau National AIDS Report of 2016 indicates that 2,392 mothers
are in need of care to prevent mother-to-child transmission. Among them, 1,571
benefited from care in 2015, representing coverage of 67.8%. The prevalence of
malaria in the regional offices throughout the country, decreased by 90% among
children aged 6 to 59 months and 83% among individuals over five years of age.
XI. Child Labor
232. All children must be protected from all forms of economic exploitation and from
doing any work detrimental to them or interfering with their social, physical, mental,
spiritual and moral development.
233. In this regard, Guinea-Bissau also ratified ILO Convention No.182 (2008) on the
Eradication of the Worst Forms of Child Labor and ILO Convention No.132 on the
Minimum Age of Child Labor.
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8 United Nations "The Millennium Development Goals Report, New York, 2015, page 22. 9 WHO,
Global health Observatory, available at: http: www.who.int/gho7gnb/country_profiles/en.
10 Amabelia Rodrigues et al, 2 Evaluation of the 2014 long Lasting Insecticide Treated Net
distribuition campain impact, INASA, Bissau, 2014
234. In terms of domestic legislation, the prohibition on the employment of children
under fourteen (14) years of age, is enshrined in Article 146 of Law No. 2/86 of 3rd
April, as well as the prohibition of children over that age or, have not attended
compulsory schooling. This prohibition is in line with the rules on legal capacity-labor.
235. Article 148 of Law No.3/86 prohibits the employment of children in labor of a
certain nature, such as heavy work, done in unhealthy or dangerous conditions, and
underground work. Children are still exempt from extraordinary work, except when it
is essential in cases of force majeure or imminent harm, which is important to the
company. Therefore, according to Article 151 of the same law, children must be
provided working conditions appropriate to their age,
So that their physical and psychological development, function in the
possible.
best way
236. With regard to the penalty regime, the law provides for fines to be imposed on
employers who violate the rules protecting child labor and some control mechanisms,
(such as the imposition on employers to register the number, name and age of
children at their service), under penalty of fines, Article 186 of the same law.
237. Data from the 4th MICS4 multiple sampling survey and Demographic
Reproductive Health Survey "IDSR", indicating that more than half of children aged
5-14 years (57%), are involved in child labor, being more frequent in rural areas
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