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Enforced isolation of AIDS patients dropped
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-04-07 09:22 A draft amendment to
China's 15-year-old law on contagious disease prevention has canceled the
enforced isolation of HIV/AIDS patients, an important legal step to eliminate
bias against HIV/AIDS patients.
The draft amendment, which was submitted to the NPC Standing Committee for
deliberation, dropped the AIDS prevention and control management standard from
the highest level to medium level, which does not require the enforced isolation
of HIV/AIDS patients.
The amendment would represent ¡°an institutional start to eliminate the stigma
and discrimination against HIV/AIDS patients,¡± said a member of the NPC¡¯s
Standing Committee, who declined to be named.
"In the past, every HIV/AIDS patient had to be isolated. Police had the power
to force them into isolation wards." He said
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