ILO alarmed over discrimination against PLHIV

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said that despite progress being made in treatment that enables People Living with HIV to work, they continue to face discrimination when seeking employment.
A new study launched by the ILO and the Global Network of People Living with HIV, also stated that people living with HIV, face same problem as they try to keep their jobs and progress in their careers.
The study said many people living with HIV lose their jobs or cannot find one because of their HIV status.
The report, HIV Stigma and Discrimination in the World of Work: Findings from the People Living with HIV Stigma Index, is based on surveys carried out by 13 country teams throughout the world.
Interviews were carried out with more than 100,000 people living with HIV.
It was presented during the biennial International AIDS Conference “AIDS 2018,” the largest conference on any global health or development issue in the world, which took place in Amsterdam recently.
The brief provides the latest data on HIV and workplace discrimination and shows that: A large proportion of people living with HIV are unemployed.
Ten out of 13 countries recorded unemployment rates among respondents at 30 per cent or higher; while it also Shows that young people living with HIV had