Discrimination against people with HIV
AIDS testing usually means screening out HIV+ applicants for housing, medical aid schemes and insurance, military and police recruits, immigrants, potential public and private sector employees, applicants for training, and medical patients.
their medicine dose by dose. These hospitals no longer have the US$1 needed to test each blood sample before transfusion. As a result, the World Health Organisation estimates that 5-10% of HIV infections in Africa are caused by blood transfusions. The figure rises to 20% of infections of babies.
Condoms are made from latex, most of which comes from the third world. The finished product is usually too expensive for local people. In the most miserable bars of Africa, buying a condom adds 50% to the basic cost of sex with a prostitute. In 1991, Zaire imported 16 million condoms for its 40
OUTRAGE ACT UP AIDS In some provinces of South Africa, one in five applicants for housing loans simultaneously receive their rejection letter and the news that they are HIV+. One in ten Thai Army recruits are sent home with no ongoing support -rejected because of HIV.
Several countries use HIV testing as a means of repression against migrant workers, refugees, those suspected of drug use, prostitution or homosexuality. In many cases, the penalty for testing postive is indefinite detention, or forced relocation. In 1993, HIV+ Burmese sex workers deported from Thailand were immediately killed by their country's military regime