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The National AIDS Trust is calling for equal protection from discrimination for people living with HIV across Europe. The current proposed Equality Directive does not mention PLWH, despite levels of stigma and discrimination being high across Europe.
Without HIV being mentioned in the Directive, member states are free to either protect or not protect people from HIV related discrimination from the point of diagnosis.
NAT and HIV organisations across Europe are signing a petition and calling on the European Union to take action and ensure the Directive mentions HIV explicitly under the definition of disability in order to outlaw discrimination for PLWH across Europe.
Read the petition here.
If your organisation would like to add its name to the petition email policyandcampaigns@nat.org.uk
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HIV and Employment Research Project
A clear picture is emerging about some of the barriers that people living with HIV can face getting a job. But we need to know more about the experiences of people living with HIV when they are at work. NAT has commissioned an independent research team to address this information gap.
Discrimination and Schools
The 2005 Disability Discrimination Act (DDA 2005) made it illegal to discriminate against people living with HIV. However cases are still reported where schools have refused a child a place or excluded them and staff are sacked or not employed solely because they are living with HIV. Often this discrimination is caused by unfounded fears of infection. The National AIDS Trust is campaigning for the Department of Children Schools and Families to provide specific guidance to schools on HIV.
