On Friday, a Yanbian county court in Southwest China's Sichuan province will hear China's second case involving charges of employment discrimination against an HIV carrier.

Xu Xinhua, who is representing the petitioner Xiao Jun (an alias), said he is confident his client can win, even though the first such case brought before judges ended in failure during a single hearing.

Xiao Jun, a 28-year-old Yanbian resident who aspires to be a teacher, tested positive for HIV during a mandatory medical examination, which he had to undergo before taking a post at a government-run school.

After seeing the test results, the county education bureau declined to offer him the job. As bad as that was, an even worse blow came for Xiao Jun when he learned that the news of his contraction of HIV had begun to spread around the education bureau.

Xiao Jun took the case to court on Oct 20, demanding the job he was promised. He also asked the county education bureau to apologize for allowing its knowledge of his medical condition to leak.