Help for HIV victims
Help for HIV victims
Discrimination against HIV victims is to be made illegal, the Government said as its measures to advance disabled people's rights cleared the Lords. The social security minister Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish introduced amendments to the Disability Discrimination Bill making clear that people at a "progressive stage" of the HIV virus, leading to Aids, would receive the same protection as disabled people.
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