Sudan preparing draft law to end discrimination against HIV/AIDS patients

 

TVC NEWS, SUDAN - Sudan is in the process of drafting a law to protect the rights of those living with HIV/AIDS and ensure that they
receive medical and psychological care.
The bill, which is being drafted by legal experts, people living with HIV/AIDS, physicians and officials, will also criminalise the
intentional transmission of the disease.
Sudan’s ministry of health revealed last December that there are 79,000 cases of AIDS in the country.


The draft law would state that people living with HIV/AIDS enjoy all the rights guaranteed by the constitution and international conventions ratified by Sudan.
It prohibits any form of discrimination based on HIV status that would lead to the degradation of their dignity or erosion of their rights or
exploitation.
Furthermore, the draft bill gives the patients the right to housing, access to goods and services and prohibits subjecting any citizen to HIV check as a condition for employment or dismissing employees who contract the virus unless it is proven through a medical report that they are incapable of performing their job functions.