Laghari FA; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 2000 Jul 9-14; 13: abstract no. MoPeD2512.
F.A. Laghari, Defence Housing Society, 2-Creek Lane 1, Street-5, Phase 6, Karachi, Pakistan, Tel.: +92 21 585 24 05, E-mail: flaghari@gerrys.net
Issues: The social and economic impacts of being HIV/AIDS patient are enormous, particularly in developing countries like Pakistan. The problems multiply more when a person working abroad and getting livelyhood for himself and the family is deported back home on being found HIV positive. This happens particularly with the labourers working in Gulf countries. Description: The aim of this paper is to impress upon the government and ngos to approach those countries who deport the HIV/AIDS patients without taking care of their basic human rights. As the workers in those countries do not have the obligation of social security on those governments, and HIV/AIDS do not spread through casual contact, hence these governments should not deport the HIV/AIDS patients and let them waste their rest of the productive life in shame, guilt, poverity and marginalization. Conclusions: The deportation of otherwise healthy people on merely being HIV positive leads to host of the problems including spread of HIV/AIDS. The surveillance results have proved in Pakistan that the people deported without counselling transmit the disease to their wives and then on to their new borns. Thus the education and awareness about the different aspects of HIV/AIDS is necessary for the policy makers of such countries, which will rectify this injustice to people working abroad during their most productive years of the life.
Publication Types:
Keywords:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Demography
- Developing Countries
- Ethnic Groups
- HIV Infections
- HIV Seropositivity
- Human Rights
- Humans
- Pakistan
- Work
- education
Other ID:
UI: 102238265
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