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HIV patients plea discrimination
艾滋感染者質疑歧視規定

A volunteer and a HIV infected person set up a heart-shaped gesture holding a red banner in Hengyang, central China's Hunan Province, Nov. 29, 2011. Falling on Dec. 1, the World AIDS Day has its theme of 'Getting to Zero' this year. [Xinhua]

Three HIV-infected patients wrote a joint letter to the Legislative Affairs Office of State Council Monday morning, saying that "General Civil Servants Employment Physical Examination Standards," "Civil Servants Special Physical Examination Standards," "Contagious Disease Prevention Law" and other regulations all include HIV-discrimination provisions, the Beijing News reported. The letter petitions for the scrutiny and removal of those provisions.

據《新京報》報道，三位艾滋感染者周一上午聯名致信國務院法制辦，稱《公務員錄用體檢通用標準》、《公務員特殊體檢標準》、《傳染病防治法實施辦法》等系列規章存在恐艾歧視，請求進行審查，予以撤銷或宣布廢止。

Nie Shengkui, director of the examination and recruitment department of the State Administration of Civil Service, refuted that discriminations exist in the country's civil service recruitment process.

日前，國家公務員局考試錄用司司長聶生奎否認了公務員考試存在就業歧視。

However, the petitioners suggested in the letter that, under existing regulations and regulatory documents, HIV infection patients can not be civil servants, teachers or policemen, and that the regulations enforce isolation treatment, which is "a serious violation of medical common sense."

(China.org.cn October 1, 2011)

但建議信認為，根據現行規章及規范性文件，艾滋感染者不能當公務員，不能當教師，不能當警察；并要求艾滋感染者進行隔離治療，這“嚴重違反了醫學常識”。