HIV and Human Rights Mitigation Report 2014

Thirty years into the HIV epidemic, it is disheartening to note that stigma and discrimination remain a fact of everyday life for people living with HIV. The case studies highlighted in this report are testament to the many forms of attitudes, practices and systems across a wide range of sectors that continue to ‘punish’ HIV to this day.

In the past year, HIV related discrimination in educational institutions and work place settings was particularly disturbing. In spite of assurance of good health by medical experts, employees and students living with HIV were dismissed and denied educational opportunities respectively on grounds of 'ill-health'. This underscores the urgent need to review policies that were ill-informed or outdated to reflect the most recent advancement in HIV medicine.