Beijing (Reuters) – three aspiring school teachers called on Chinese, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, an end to discrimination against people with HIV after noting that they were denied jobs as teachers since their employers found that they had the virus that causes AIDS.
The petition, sent on Monday by e-mail to the Office of Legislative Affairs of the Council of State, is a test for the promise to china to promote the enactment of the law.
The three signatories began trials separately against their local governments once provincial educational Council rejected their applications to put teachers since its compulsory blood tests revealed that they are HIV-positive.
These rejections occurred even when applicants had passed the written test and the labor. interviews
The three men hoped to persuade the Court that a law of five-year-old supposed that it protects the rights of people with HIV should be superior to the local regulations to prevent the recruitment of staff infected with the virus.
Two Chinese courts failed against the two men who had begun proceedings against Governments of Anhui and Sichuan 2010.
In the third trial, in Guizhou, the judge said the plaintiff in October that the cuts will “not accept the trial and that the plaintiff should ask local government it resolved”, he told Reuters Yu Fangqiang, whose organization headquartered in Nanjing, Tianxia Gong, advocates for people with HIV.
“We know that in a country like China has 1.3 billion people, 740,000 people infected with HIV is just a small portion of the population,” instructs the request of teachers that Reuters had access.
The claims in defence of the rights of persons with HIV tend to be neglected by the widespread fear, added the letter.
“But we also know that adherence to the laws of the country and the fairness of these people is the spirit of the nation and the backbone of the modernization of the country,” said the letter.
“Every citizen and every Chinese Department will certainly benefit from this and will not be subject to the threat of unlawful deprivation of their legitimate rights and interests,” he added.
To Beijing first cost him much recognize the problem of HIV/AIDS in the early 1990s and began to look after him when hundreds of thousands of poor farmers in rural Henan province contracted the infection by harmful blood selling schemes.
But since then, the Government has increased its efforts against AIDS, allocating more funds to prevention programmes, launching schemes to provide universal access to antiretroviral drugs to contain the disease and introducing policies to put an end to the discrimination.
The major route of transmission of the virus in the Asian giant is currently the contact sex.
In a country where taboos surrounding sex remain very strong and where the debate on the subject is very limited, people living with HIV/AIDS indicate that they are stigmatized.
Yu said that discrimination against people with HIV, especially in the recruitment of civilian personnel, is “still a very big problem”.
People living in China with HIV and AIDS often are denied medical care in major hospitals because of the fear and ignorance about the disease, according to a study published by the international labour (ILO) Organization, part of United Nations.
The petition, which was sent to the Government Office that helps to check and monitor the implementation of laws, comes shortly before the commemoration of the international day to combat AIDS, the December 1.
(Published in Spanish by Ana Laura Mitidieri)
