This AIDS Action Europe workshop will present a selection of legal cases which have been won for people with HIV using national, European and international human rights and discrimination law. Speakers are:

  • Walter Heidkampf (HIV Sweden) - Exclusion from training due to HIV status
  • Irina Varshyk (All-Ukrainian Network of PLWH) - Prisoner who was denied medical care due to HIV status
  • Ronald Brands (Dutch HIV Association) - Dismissal of barber due to HIV status
  • Caroline Suter (Swiss Aids Federation) - Exclusion from surgical technician education due to HIV status
  • Yusef Azad (National AIDS Trust – United Kingdom) - Refusal of endoscopy procedure due to HIV status
  • Ferenc Bagyinszky (Hungarian Civil Liberties Union) - Criminalisation of HIV transmission

Check www.hivhumanrightsnow.org for further information on human rights-related sessions at the conference.

When? Tuesday July 20 from 08.30-09.30
Where? Human rights networking zone (booth 806) in the Global Village