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Discrimination

Displayed below is content from the NAPWA website tagged with the keyword discrimination.

Are you clean?

Positive Living article • David Menadue • 26 February 2010

It has become a favourite on online dating sites as the ‘polite’ way to ask about HIV status. Just for the record, it is not polite. It is both stigmatising and discriminatory.

Twenty five years on, do we still suffer stigma and discrimination? David Menadue finds that, in some areas particularly, we still do. read more »

Declaration of rights for people living with HIV/AIDS

Story • 18 November 2005

Full text of the revised Declaration of Rights for People Living with HIV/AIDS, launched at the NAPWA Conference on 19 November. read more »

World AIDS Day: 
‘We are living our rights’

Media release • Paul Kidd • 1 December 2009

State and federal governments should make a clear commitment to reforming laws that discriminate against HIV-positive people, state and national organisations representing people living with HIV have said. read more »

NAPWA represented at National Human Rights Consultation Committee meeting

Story • Graham Stocks • 11 September 2009

NAPWA’s Deputy Director, Dr John Rule, along with representatives from GBLTI organisations, attended a meeting with Mary Kostakidis and Father Frank Brennan of the National Human Rights Consultation Committee. read more »

A downside of same-sex law reform

Positive Living article • Adrian Ogier • 13 March 2009

With impending social security changes set to adversely affect a good chunk of our community, it’s important we look for ways to ease the transition for a group already doing it hard. read more »

Your rights

From Next steps • 1 December 2008

Although you are not obliged to tell anyone your status, the law may require you to tell people under certain circumstances. read more »

Disclosing your HIV status: a guide to some of the legal issues

Story • HIV/AIDS Legal Centre (NSW) • 15 October 2008

This booklet contains the relevant law on disclosure of HIV status as it applies in New South Wales as at 1 January 2008. read more »

NAPWA Positive Women endorse new Terms of reference (TOR)

Story • Scott Lockhart • 30 January 2008

NAPWA positve women have recently endorsed new Terms of reference for the advisory group. read more »

Forced to the Margins ... Again

Discussion paper • Peter Canavan • 30 November 2007

This paper was prepared after a special session at the NAPWA General Meeting April 2007 where NAPWA members discussed their response to concerns over sensationalist media attention surrounding recent HIV transmission cases. read more »

IAS Conference opens with spotlight on politics

Story • Paul Kidd • 23 July 2007

The 4th International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention has opened in Sydney with calls for increased funding for HIV research, and a powerful rejection of the Australian Prime Minister's plans to tighten restrictions on immigration by people living with HIV/AIDS. read more »

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