Employment

Employment features

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  Taking the plunge: how to return to work

  In February, HTU looked at how changes in benefits might affect people with HIV. We quoted a doctor and a patient rep who both said that if people...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Will a long life be a good one?

  People with HIV are now living into old age – an old age many regard with fear, as Lisa Power from the Terrence Higgins Trust finds...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Equal billing

  Eleanor Briggs of NAT explains how the Equality Act will improve protection for people with HIV in the workplace....

  From:  HIV treatment update

Employment in your own words

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  Needlestick injury

  I am an HIV-positive doctor. I was infected courtesy of a lapse in concentration and a needlestick injury at work. The prescribed dual post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) was taken for one...

  From: In your own words

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  Better off knowing

  'Have you looked in the mirror?’ the GP asked me. I thought he must be a bit mad! I had only just managed to drag...

  From: In your own words

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  'I just take the tablets and get on with my life'

  I was diagnosed HIV-positive in 1997. I'm now 65. It was a bit of a shock. It could never happen to me, after all. I...

  From: In your own words

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  Life on HIV treatment – a personal perspective

  I’ve been taking HIV treatment for ten years – that's longer than the average life expectancy of someone with HIV when I was diagnosed back in 1991. I’ve...

  From: In your own words

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  Time will tell

  I was devastated when I got the news that I was HIV-positive. But I was lucky to have such a supportive GP. It was thanks...

  From: In your own words

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  Telling people

  The lunchtime after finding out I had HIV, I called a colleague who was also a close friend. I had planned just to make sure...

  From: In your own words

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  Change of direction

  I moved to Manchester with my partner to start a course in nursing with the intention of becoming a midwife. Initially everything was peachy. But...

  From: In your own words

Employment news from aidsmap

• Providing HIV treatment to employees can lead to big savings for South African companies

  Provision of antiretroviral treatment through workplace health schemes in South Africa has the potential to save substantial sums for employers, as well as making a major contribution to treatment scale-up in the region, a new study presented at the 19th ...

  24 July 2012 | Keith Alcorn

• UK considering lifting restrictions on health workers with HIV – as long as viral load is undetectable

  The Department of Health has opened a consultation on possible changes to its policy on the employment of people with HIV. The current ban on people with HIV performing specific procedures in surgery, dentistry and gynaecology may be lifted, ...

  01 December 2011 | Roger Pebody

• Diabetes, high blood pressure increase risk of unemployment for people with HIV

  Large numbers of patients are leaving employment in the years following their diagnosis with HIV, French investigators report in the online edition of AIDS. The five-year probability of work cessation was 35%, and there was little evidence that this was ...

  27 October 2011 | Michael Carter

• Fluctuating symptoms have major impact on quality of life and fitness to work, survey finds

  Common but non-specific symptoms of uncertain cause can dominate the day-to-day life of some people with HIV, a survey by the National AIDS Trust has found. In many cases symptoms such as fatigue, insomnia, depression, diarrhoea and neuropathy make ...

  07 September 2011 | Gus Cairns

• HIV health problems cause few problems in employment, but discrimination still a reality in UK

  A majority of people with HIV employed in the UK report that HIV has no impact on their working life at present, according to research conducted by City University on behalf of the National AIDS Trust. ...

  27 August 2009 | Roger Pebody

• Workforce participation increases with time on HIV treatment

  The probabilities of being employed and being able to perform normal daily activities increased over a period of three years and beyond amongst adults on antiretroviral treatment in three South African settings, reported Sydney Rosen and ...

  10 August 2009 | Carole Leach-Lemens

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Employment news selected from other sources

• Mozambique mining boom brings fear of rising HIV infection rate

  Coal boom adds to complications for health workers trying to stop spread of HIV among miners, truck drivers and sex workers.

  15 April 2013 | The Guardian

• Sex, drugs and hope: How big business fought AIDS in South Africa

  MOST managers extol the power of positive thinking. At the New Vaal colliery in South Africa, however, workers are urged to “stay negative”. This is not because Anglo American, the mining giant that owns the colliery, wants to foster a gloomy attitude among its employees. Rather, it wants them to stay alive.

  12 April 2013 | The Economist

• New York Man Says He Was Fired For Having HIV

  A New York City man claims he was abruptly fired from his finance job at a car dealership after his employer learned he is HIV-positive.

  05 April 2013 | ABC News

• Southern Africa cracks down on TB in mines

  South Africa's gold mines are estimated to have the highest number of new tuberculosis (TB) cases in the world, making the disease a leading export to neighbouring countries. IRIN takes a look at the declaration meant to change this situation.

  25 March 2013 | IRIN

• HIV positive jobseeker 'humiliated' by Kent job centre staff

  An HIV positive jobseeker said job centre staff made him declare his condition within earshot of others, and told him he had to see a disability adviser.

  20 February 2013 | BBC News

• China: Teacher with HIV receives 45,000 yuan in employment discrimination case

  A teacher in the eastern Chinese city of Nanchang has accepted 45,000 yuan in compensation after filing a lawsuit against his local education department for employment discrimination. Xiao Qi (a pseudonym) had been refused employment by the Jinxian county education department because he was HIV positive.

  01 February 2013 | China Labour Bulletin

• Outrage at Guangdong plan to ban teachers with HIV and STDs

  A draft regulation unveiled by Guangdong education authorities that would ban HIV carriers and people with sexually transmitted diseases from applying for jobs as teachers has triggered a huge outcry from the mainland's anti-discrimination NGOs.

  08 January 2013 | South China Morning Post

• Qatar making progress fighting AIDS 'taboo'

  While the Gulf has worked to improve treatment of people suffering from HIV/AIDS, critics say much more work is needed.

  07 December 2012 | Al Jazeera

• HIV-positive Koreans worry about being shut out of employment

  HIV-positive people are demanding guarantees on their right to work ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1. The HIV-positive population in South Korea nearly doubled between 2006 and 2011, rising from 4,500 to 8,500. More than half of these people are in their twenties or thirties - right when they are finding employment. But many are giving up on the possibility of a career and resigning themselves to poverty.

  30 November 2012 | The Hankyoreh

• Military Reverses Course on HIV+ People Serving Overseas

  On Aug. 13 the Pentagon quietly released a revision to the Department of the Navy policy, which now allows HIV-positive Sailors to be stationed at U.S. military installations outside of the country and on select large ship platforms.

  20 November 2012 | OutServe

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