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Will HIV positive people not allowed to travel to Australia???
April 13, 2007 - 09:24 AM
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I can not believe this but I got this info from the BBC site [link="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6551245.stm"]
A huge setback in Human Rights Issues.
What do you all think?[i]
"Australia should refuse to allow migrants or refugees with HIV to enter the country, Prime Minister John Howard has said.
Mr Howard said there may be special cases when an exemption could be considered but as a rule HIV-positive people should be denied entry.
Mr Howard was asked about the issue during a visit to Victoria state, which has seen a sharp rise in HIV cases.
Any ban for migrants with HIV/Aids would need a change in the federal law.
Mr Howard, on a visit to Melbourne, told a local radio station he wanted to seek more advice on the issue, but said his gut feeling was that HIV sufferers should not be allowed in to the country.
"My initial reaction is no," he said. "There may be some humanitarian considerations that could temper that in certain cases, but, prime facie - no."
Victoria's public health officials have blamed the rise in HIV cases partly on overseas immigrants, but also on Australian residents relocating from other parts of the country."
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Re: Will HIV positive people not allowed to travel to Australia???
April 13, 2007 - 10:15 AM
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If that is true then Australians should cal for Mr Howard impeachment as this is discrimniation in the highest order.
I will comment on it later when i have the full story.
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Re: Will HIV positive people not allowed to travel to Australia???
April 13, 2007 - 12:06 PM
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cynexx wrote:
I can not believe this but I got this info from the BBC site [link="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6551245.stm"]
A huge setback in Human Rights Issues.
What do you all think?[i]
"Australia should refuse to allow migrants or refugees with HIV to enter the country, Prime Minister John Howard has said.
Mr Howard said there may be special cases when an exemption could be considered but as a rule HIV-positive people should be denied entry.
Mr Howard was asked about the issue during a visit to Victoria state, which has seen a sharp rise in HIV cases.
Any ban for migrants with HIV/Aids would need a change in the federal law.
Mr Howard, on a visit to Melbourne, told a local radio station he wanted to seek more advice on the issue, but said his gut feeling was that HIV sufferers should not be allowed in to the country.
"My initial reaction is no," he said. "There may be some humanitarian considerations that could temper that in certain cases, but, prime facie - no."
Victoria's public health officials have blamed the rise in HIV cases partly on overseas immigrants, but also on Australian residents relocating from other parts of the country."
Does it mean that there is no Australian with HIV position?
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Dennis Nyakundi Onguti
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Re: Will HIV positive people not allowed to travel to Australia???
April 13, 2007 - 03:50 PM
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"So it doesn't actually do any good. People go underground. Stigma and discrimination increases in the country and makes the response to HIV all the more difficult." Yusef Azard, National Aids Trust.
This is where from i will pick my response.
After reading through the responses that have been given to Mr Howard word on HIV/AIDS, and further reading to the HIV/AIDS in Australia, it has a strong foundation on STIGMA based on his view of GAY people. There seem to be a link created between immigration and the homosexual activity and AIDS is seen as a consequence of this chain. So, according to Mr. Howard's response to the question raised by the local radio station seems according to him to go to the root problem.
And further to that i have an impression that Melbourne is one of the places hit because of immigration. Compounding all these, i am not surprised by his response. It is fuelles by his perception on the gay people who are a minority ut they seem to be growing with immigration and this really frustrates him.
Stigma most often stems from our own worldview about am issue at hand. AIDS has been tagged as a disease of sexual deviants and any person or group identified to live with it is seen as a threat to public health because they are "sexually immoral" that they will infect the rest. This view comes as a result of being ill-informed, being with little knowledge, seeing the syndrome far people's problem. To react from our own bias brings makes even the problem bigger. I wonder how Horward's goverment can control the syndrome if people are not free to go for the screening knowing the legal consequences of identified as Positive! It necesssary mean that AIDS will turn to be a silent killer.
The best way is to start a control and preventive campaign while providing the healthy facilities for those living with the Virus then can it provide effective change.
What Howard said is immoral, illegal and against fundamental human rights.
I will write panorama about AIDS related stigma.
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