BANGKOK (AlertNet) - Discrimination by health workers is seriously hurting efforts to fight HIV/AIDS in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a new study by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the Global Netowk of People Living with HIV/AIDS.
“We were shocked to uncover a wide range of discrimination,” Susan Paxton, advisor and principal investigator for the Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS, said in a statement.
“We found people being refused treatment, treatment delays, breaches of confidentiality, people having to pay extra for treatment and women being forced to have an abortion or sterilisation.”
See AIDS discrimination in Asia .
