Forcible HIV testing by India amounts to discrimination

Submitted by Kishalaya Namaram (Dodo) (dodonamaram) about 10 months ago

By allowing people with HIV/Aids to enter the US after January 1, next year, President Obama is holding up to shame countries left behind in removing discrimination against people who are infected.

The countries — and there are about a dozen of them — include India, which hosts thousands of African university students, many from Kenya. In a move apparently aimed at arresting the spread of the scourge, India still needs foreign students — most of them African or Asian — to take compulsory HIV tests. If they prove positive they are deported.

The mandatory testing of foreign students — there some 30,000 foreign students in India — not only discriminates against them, but also violates their basic human rights. It is particularly demeaning for people from a continent widely suspected to be the origin of Aids. Government centres in India have been carrying out these tests for more than two decades now, although forced testing violates international law.
Read source article...

Keywords: AIDS HIV

India 0 comments Mail a friend Edit