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UAE prepares draft law to end HIV/AIDS discrimination
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Posted on Wednesday, 19 November 2008
HIV and employment in the EAU
Posted by Star Z at 07:55 UAE time
HIV is widely misunderstood. Often positive people live a normal life without any medication without curtailing their productivity. Employers should be encouraged to be objective, as hould meddical insurers and society at large. It is a vast web of inter-mingling issues. HIV has no predictable path to illness and stopping someone contributing based on mere speculation is an outrage likely to produce a vast global underclass in future, trained but unemployable. A travesty.
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Posted on Tuesday, 18 November 2008
Dicrimination of HIV+ people
Posted by John at 16:50 UAE time
The UAE live in the middle ages. To date no one really knows if HIV even is causing AIDS.
Barring expat workers from working in UAE if they test HIV+ only contributes to the scare mongering.
Does the EU require UAE nationals to undergo testing? NO! Perhaps they should reconsider - and send all UAE nationals home if they test positive, using a test that can cause a positive test result on more than 60 other conditions.
I think the UAE should be ashamed and embarrassed to uphold a law that so obviously discriminates and violates basic human rights.
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Posted on Thursday, 30 October 2008
Draft Law against discrimination
Posted by rirani at 14:10 UAE time
The U.A.E is a great success story and to continue with such leadership and achieving longterm goals the issue of discrimination against deseases such as AIDS ,Hepatitis B/C should be passed as a law.
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Posted on Wednesday, 29 October 2008
Education
Posted by A.L.S at 09:19 UAE time
All well but the Bill will not resolve the true problem. The issue in the UAE is the lack of knowledge and understanding about HIV. It is considered to be a taboo and one should not talk about it, same goes for sexual education. The only way to prevent discrimination among anyone is education. UAE whole approach of not allowing HIV+ expats to enter is useless as many UAE locals go abroad and might receive the desease there.
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Posted on Tuesday, 28 October 2008
HIV
Posted by max hooper at 09:08 UAE time
This issue is much bigger than the disease itself in the UAE but cultural. Non UAE Nationals found to have the disease are treated like criminals and this won't change. UAE Nationals with HIV do have the right to be treated with dignity and respect but I think this policy is opening up the divide still further between National and residents.
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