Living with HIV+ Status
Being HIV+ in the early 1980's had certain social stigmas attached to it that were often hard to break to even loved ones of the infected person. When it came to the workplace or school setting things got even harder.
In the year 2007, with the advancement in HIV medication and treatment options as well as a better understanding of the disease itself, you would assume that things would be different.
There are laws that prevent people with HIV from being fired or refused a job, but unfortunately, these laws don't protect all HIV-positive people every time. Here's why there's no simple answer: Anti-discrimination laws protect people who are disabled from job discrimination. It is up to courts to decide whether a person qualifies as disabled, and therefore entitled to protection from job discrimination. While courts have often ruled that HIV is a disability, they have not ruled this way in all cases.
QUESTION: Put yourself in the workplace/school of someone who finds out one of their coworkers/friends is HIV+.
- Do you consider being HIV+ a 'disability'?
- How would things change for you as the coworker/friend of the infected person?
- How would things change for them?
posted by Rubik @ 8:36 AM
6 Comments
6 Comments:
I don't think HIV/AIDS is a disability.You have no control over whether or not you are disabled.You have a choice whether or not you can protect yourself from getting AIDS.You can practice abstinence and help protect yourself from getting HIV/AIDS.With a disability you have no control, but with HIV/AIDS you have the power to protect yourself.
I don't think HIV+ people should be called disabled, because they can still do what an uninffected people can do. If one of my coworkers or classmates was to be HIV+ it would not make a difference to me. Maybe to that HIV+ person, thier life wuould change in some way. Only he/she can anwser that
in respomse to 12:05
it is still a disability, i think we would all agree that if someone cut their own arm off, they'd still be disabled, and there are things that u can't do because of the meds u need to take and the accesibility of those meds.
i don't think that HIV+ people should be considered disabled. they can still function like other people-- it's kind of like cancer-- cancerous people aren't considered disabled, so HIV+ people shouldn't either.
I think that having a friend HIV positive, It wouldn't be any different to me. I think they should be treated the same, considering there is very few ways that im sure you wouldn't do with them to spread HIV. It would be very difficult if jobs didn't except you because you were HIV or AIDS postive, but they need to realize it can't be spread by coughing of sitting on the toilet they need to read up and realize it wouldn't kill you unless you enteractedf with them in sexual behavior.
I think it's pretty depressing when people have HIV. It's really sad. It's even more sad when kids getting it from their parents. Because they didn't have a choice to have HIV, but other people do at times. I think these people need help and go get counseling. The end.
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