Much is said about HIV and Aids discrimination but now those who've been discriminated against will have some recourse. Now there will be a system where any person who's been discriminated against in any manner whether it at work or while seeking a service, will now have somewhere to turn. Visiting expert Dr. Christina Calderon, the Coordinator for the Central American Human Rights Network explains.
Dr. Christina Calderon,
"The idea is for those persons living with HIV/Aids and vulnerable communities to be able to make complaints on a web page so we can follow up on them. In each country also they can follow up on complaints and give responses for them. The idea is for us to put it into a system and be able to have a response and have clear statistics for decision makers to know what is happening but it is not in a system. It's not in a questionnaire, its not in the form of statistics. We want to eliminate stigma and discrimination that there is with HIV/Aids. We will achieve this only if we catalogue the information of the people being discriminated against."
The workshop will end on Friday.
