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Meanwhile the National Aids Trust (NAT) has launched a groundbreaking
series of ads and cinema commercials entitled 'Are you HIV prejudiced?'
Among the hard hitting NAT ads is this month's Positive Nation cover image
-a young man with the message written in his eyes: 'Could you look me
in the eye if you knew I had HIV?'
Another initiative, organised by the Positive Futures - a partnership
of five major London HIV charities - also challenges the stigma and discrimination
of HIV in the workplace.
The Work for Life campaign provides employers with information to support
HIV positive employees.
Andrew Little, Positive Futures director, said: "We have done a great
deal to help positive people to re-enter the workforce. But we still need
to do a formidable amount of awareness raising and training with employers."
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THT's campaigning website: www.advocacyonline.net/tht/index.htm
Positive Futures website: www.positive-futures.ukcharities.com
"Scottish law is a health risk" say docs
Two leading doctors, writing in the British Medical Journal, say that the number of
HIV cases in Scotland could greatly increase after a legal ruling made it an offence to knowingly pass on the infection.
