Discrimination and the law

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  Rest assured – life insurance for people with HIV

  Relatively few people with HIV in the UK take out life insurance, but is that actually because it isn’t available to them? Gus Cairns investigates. ...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Equal billing

  Eleanor Briggs of NAT explains how the Equality Act will improve protection for people with HIV in the workplace....

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  US HIV travel ban set to depart at last

  It has been a long time in coming and there have been many false dawns, but it really does look as if the ban on people...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Whose fear is it anyway? People with HIV and dentists

  People with HIV are still failing to access good dental care, even though it’s in their interest. Do they assume dentists will still have issues treating them?...

  From:  HIV treatment update

Discrimination and the law in your own words

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  Having a baby

  I want my experiences to give hope to other people – things do not have to end when you find out that you have HIV. In...

  From: In your own words

Discrimination and the law news from aidsmap

• No adverse social consequences from early ART initiation in West Africa

  Early initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) does not have negative social consequences, investigators report in the online edition of AIDS. Research involving patients in Côte d’Ivoire showed that there were no differences in key social indicators such as relationship ...

  05 April 2016 | Michael Carter

• How do we maximise global HIV treatment access? IAPAC Care Continuum Guidelines make recommendations

  IAPAC, the International Association of Practitioners in AIDS Care, has issued a set of guidelines that aims to establish a common set of best practices to ensure that as many people living with HIV as possible are diagnosed, cared ...

  09 November 2015 | Gus Cairns

• Four in ten people diagnosed with HIV in Europe are migrants

  Nearly four out of every ten people with HIV in the European Economic Area (EEA) is a migrant to the country in which they are diagnosed, a recent report by the Spanish Centre for Epidemiology shows. The EEA ...

  24 June 2015 | Gus Cairns

• Globally, 1 in 12 MSM have been arrested for same-sex behaviour

  Laws which criminalise homosexual behaviour – such as those recently passed by Nigeria and Uganda – are not just symbolic or rarely put into practice, a global survey shows. One in twelve men who have sex ...

  23 July 2014 | Roger Pebody

• High levels of mental distress, unprotected sex, needle sharing, unmet prevention needs found among HIV-infected patients in St Petersburg

  Risky sex and drug use are common among HIV-positive people in Russia, investigators report in AIDS and Behavior. Discrimination was a common experience, and there was a high prevalence of depression and anxiety. “Policies and public health programs ...

  12 May 2011 | Michael Carter

• China repeals its HIV travel ban

  China has repealed its long-standing HIV travel ban. The move comes just days before the opening of a major trade exposition in Shanghai, which is expected to attract millions of international visitors. Announcing the removal of ...

  28 April 2010 | Michael Carter

• Parliamentarians, UNAIDS, call for removal of HIV travel bans

  Parliamentarians have joined with UNAIDS to call for the removal of travel restrictions for people with HIV. Governments were urged to action by parliamentarians from around the world, meeting at the 122nd Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary ...

  29 March 2010 | Michael Carter

• HIV health problems cause few problems in employment, but discrimination still a reality in UK

  A majority of people with HIV employed in the UK report that HIV has no impact on their working life at present, according to research conducted by City University on behalf of the National AIDS Trust. ...

  27 August 2009 | Roger Pebody

• Equal access to PEP in UK legal spotlight

  Next month, an individual will be taking the United Kingdom government to court, accusing it of failing to implement an equitable policy regarding access to lifesaving drugs. It's not the anticancer drug Herceptin that will be ...

  26 April 2006 | Edwin J. Bernard

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Discrimination and the law news selected from other sources

• UK: Foreigner's health issues insufficient to halt deportation

  In an landmark decision, the UK Appeal Court decision has ruled that the deportation of a Nigerian man with sickle cell disease would not be a contravention of the European Convention on Human Rights.

  11 July 2019 | Legalbrief

• Southmead Hospital cancelled HIV patient's surgery over 'deep clean'

  A hospital has apologised to a woman with HIV after cancelling her surgery twice when it wrongly believed it would then have to deep clean the theatre.

  05 July 2019 | BBC News

• UNAIDS welcomes the decision of the High Court of Botswana to repeal laws that criminalize and discriminate against LGBT people

  UNAIDS applauds the landmark decision of the High Court of Botswana to declare unconstitutional key provisions of Sections 164 and 167 of the Botswana Penal Code. Those provisions criminalized certain private sexual acts and have led to discrimination and violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Botswana.

  11 June 2019 | UNAIDS

• Botswana scraps gay sex laws in big victory for LGBTQ rights in Africa

  Botswana's High Court has overturned a colonial-era law criminalizing consensual same-sex relations in a landmark victory for Africa's LGBTQ movements. The ruling comes just a month after Kenya's high court upheld its laws criminalizing homosexuality.

  11 June 2019 | CNN

• California District Court Grants Judgment to HIV+ Man Denied Haircut at Los Angeles Barbershop

  “This judgment is proof that what happened to me in that barbershop and what happens to people living with HIV who experience discrimination just trying to do basic things in life like go the dentist or get a haircut is simply not acceptable,” said Nikko Briteramos, the complainant.

  05 June 2019 | Lambda Legal

• Woman refused dental treatment due to HIV status to receive €10,000

  Patient was in dentist chair had received anaesthetic when service withdrawn.

  05 June 2019 | Irish Times

• US: HHS Rule Allows Religious Discrimination in Health Care

  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has finalized a new rule that will allow health care workers to refuse to provide or assist in providing medical services if doing so violates their religious or moral beliefs. In other words, it will allow them to discriminate widely and putting LGBTQ people and our families, among others, at risk.

  10 May 2019 | Pride Source

• South Korea’s HIV testing of foreign teachers challenged in compensation claim

  Lisa Griffin is seeking one year’s lost wages of US$21,000 because her contract was not renewed in 2009 after she refused to be tested for the disease. But the government says the testing was legal and proportionate, and that the statute of limitations has already expired.

  23 April 2019 | South China Morning Post

• Employers’ unlawful vetting of job applicant health conditions and disabilities persists, says NAT

  Today marks nine years since the Equality Act was passed, yet social care providers across London have been found to be openly breaking rules it introduced, designed to prevent discrimination in employment. A report published today by NAT (National AIDS Trust) shows continued use of unlawful pre-employment health questions amongst these employers.

  08 April 2019 | National AIDS Trust

• US: Judge halts Air Force’s efforts to discharge airmen with HIV

  A federal judge in Virginia has ordered the Air Force to halt efforts to discharge service members who are HIV-positive. The ruling came in a case filed by two HIV-positive airmen who are suing to prevent their discharge under the military’s “deploy or get out” policy. U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema in Alexandria issued the preliminary injunction Friday. She ruled that the Air Force's treatment of HIV-positive personnel is "irrational, inconsistent, and at variance with modern science."

  16 February 2019 | Air Force Times

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