HIV / AIDS Carriers in the Workplace

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This paper sheds light on some important issues related to employment of HIV infected people. With dramatic increase in HIV patients worldwide, several problems have surfaced regarding the rights of this group in society and in the workplace. Corporations are still uncertain how an HIV infected employee should be covered by medical insurance when pre-existing conditions can be a huge burden on a company's financial resources. Discrimination based on valid concerns and social prejudice has made life difficult for the infected members of the American workforce. The paper shows how sufferers are not treated fairly in the workplace and how certain professions have imposed restrictions on the entry of infected people.

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"HIV/AIDS virus is an extremely dangerous and mysterious predator, that has infected some 22.6 million people around the world, and the number is continuously rising as no cure is in sight and no breakthrough in this field has yet been achieved. The disease that was discovered in 1981 posed a major threat to the human population when, within the first five years of its discovery, AIDS had attacked 24,000 Americans and it was believed that within a short period of time this disease would reach an epidemical stage. That period has expired and we are encountering a situation, which two decades ago was simply impossible to even imagine."

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