Question 21439 — discrimination

Summary

Mr. Erwan Balanant alerts the Minister of Solidarity and Health to the discrimination suffered by people carrying the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). While the joint United Nations program on HIV and AIDS announces the end of the epidemic by 2030, in France, around 6,000 new cases of HIV are still detected each year. Faced with this observation, prevention efforts must continue and intensify, especially since young people seem less informed or cautious than around ten years ago. In parallel with these prevention actions and incentives for testing, we must wage another fight: that against the discrimination faced by people infected with HIV. Indeed, if the development of new treatments has made it possible to considerably improve the conditions and life expectancy of people HIV-positive people, now comparable to those of a person not carrying HIV, they continue to be strongly marginalized. Society and the law that governs it therefore evolve much more slowly than science in this regard. The figures are alarming: according to a study carried out by the AIDES association, in 2016, 43.6% of HIV-positive people declared having suffered discrimination in the private sphere (family, friends), 16.4% in their professional life and 23.6%, in the medical field. This last figure is of particular concern: certain medical and paramedical personnel, although informed of the evolution of treatments and the impossibility for a person whose viral load has become undetectable to transmit the virus, oppose, on principle, a refusal of care to HIV carriers. The latter denounce in particular the difficulty of finding a professional agreeing to provide them with dental care. Additionally, HIV-positive people face legal and administrative barriers in all aspects of their lives. For example, if access to bank loans for HIV-positive people was made easier in 2017, certain HIV carriers can still be allocated a surcharge of 100% of the standard rate of a loan. Furthermore, in cases of people having recourse to triple therapy, obtaining the status of disabled person is not automatic, even when the side effects justify it. What actions does the Government intend to put in place to increase prevention of the HIV virus while actively combating serophobia? He asks what measures are planned to put an end to the various unjustified legal and administrative obstacles facing HIV carriers must cope.

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