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Impartiality In Health Care

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HIV/AIDS is a serious health condition which is highly stigmatized and it is the one of the important factor of job termination. Every individual have the equal right for the employment and live the independent life, and so of the healthcare workers with HIV/AIDS. If healthcare worker can take care of a patient with HIV/AIDS with full courage and respect, then why can’t the healthcare worker who is suffering from HIV/AIDS provide care to the patient? Every patient has a right to keep his/her diagnosis confidential and there shouldn’t be any impartiality in their course of treatment. Healthcare workers who are infected with HIV/AIDS, should be allowed to work comfortably in their areas, and should have the right of confidentiality and impartiality.
To begin with, Healthcare workers with HIV/AIDS have the right to be treated with respect by maintaining their confidentiality. Confidentially means that the …show more content…

Now, people say that impartiality should be promoted to prevent the risk of HIV/AIDS infection transmission from healthcare worker to patient. Although this impartiality can somehow reduce the chances of infection transmission, but on the other hand, from the fear of being stigmatize will decreases their self-esteem and due to which people will start isolating, individual avoid coming forward for seeking medical advices and treatment, which will at the end deepen the adverse effects of disease. According to ILO (2012), discrimination and stigmatization of individuals living with HIV/AIDS restrain endeavors aimed at promoting HIV/AIDS prevention. Since HIV/AIDS is a preventable disease, it cannot be transmitted through casual contacts, so in spite of avoiding HIV/AIDS infected healthcare workers we should support them in accommodation at their

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