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HIV patients plea discrimination
艾滋感染者质疑歧视规定

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.

据《新京报》报道，三位艾滋感染者周一上午联名致信国务院法制办，称《公务员录用体检通用标准》、《公务员特殊体检标准》、《传染病防治法实施办法》等系列规章存在恐艾歧视，请求进行审查，予以撤销或宣布废止。

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，国家公务员局考试录用司司长聂生奎否认了公务员考试存在就业歧视。

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)

但建议信认为，根据现行规章及规范性文件，艾滋感染者不能当公务员，不能当教师，不能当警察；并要求艾滋感染者进行隔离治疗，这“严重违反了医学常识”。