Comments on: Hepatitis B cause for discrimination in China http://pure-essence.net/2004/04/12/hepatitis-b-cause-for-discrimination-in-china/ You have to visit this geeky girl's blog. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:26:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: hbvchina http://pure-essence.net/2004/04/12/hepatitis-b-cause-for-discrimination-in-china/#comment-15702 Wed, 04 Aug 2004 09:50:38 +0000 http://regretless.com/?p=823#comment-15702 The ministry of health of PR China recently released the general medical check-up standards for civil servants applicants and published it in its website for public opinion and advice (http://www.moh.gov.cn/public/open.aspx?n_id=8378&seq=). The standards lists out more than 20 kinds of diseases, people found with such diseases in the mandatory pre-employment medical check for applicants for civil servant will be screened out and rejected. Among those diseases are HIV/AIDS, HEART DISEASE, serious short-sightedness, etc. Compared to the past standards, there are some improvements, in particular, the HBV (Hepatitis B Virus) are considered acceptable if the liver functions well. This is a good news for the group of over 120 million HBV carriers in China, but this is not good enough as long as the test for HBV is allowed, because the test results may be revealed and misused and leads to indirect discrimination, we are calling for the prohibition of mandatory test for HBV. As I understands, the ILO code of practice on HIV/AIDS and the world of work stipulates, HIV testing should not be required at the time of recruitment or as a condition of continued employment (8.1. Prohibition in recruitment and employment).
I am writing this letter to kindly let you know that Chinese government has played and been playing a bad role in discriminating people with many kinds of diseases, whatever HIV/AIDS or HBV, as a result of recent pressure from the huge HBV carriers group, the government is starting to face the problem and do something, but as seen from the above standards, there is a long way to go. As a victim of the inhuman and unjust check-up system, I sincerely hope you and your organization could voice your opinion and suggestion to the Chinese government, try to influence them to adopt a more human and wise approach concerning the patient’s rights in China.

The mail address for advice and suggestion is: tijian@mop.gov.cn
The effective time period is: August 1st~August 31st 2004

For more information on HBV discrimination in China ,pls check the link below
http://regretless.com/index.php?p=823&c=1
http://www.asianlabour.org/archives/001457.html

Best regards,
A HBV carrier in China

]]> By: dodo http://pure-essence.net/2004/04/12/hepatitis-b-cause-for-discrimination-in-china/#comment-15701 Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:24:12 +0000 http://regretless.com/?p=823#comment-15701 seeing from his pov, he will have to die either way. one is slowly rotting in a dark corner, one is take a knife and show his dissatisfaction and be sent to the death row.

]]> By: ecila http://pure-essence.net/2004/04/12/hepatitis-b-cause-for-discrimination-in-china/#comment-15700 Tue, 13 Apr 2004 19:46:19 +0000 http://regretless.com/?p=823#comment-15700 wow…. he shouldn’t have taken that knife, and did what he did… but i guess the message had to come out sooner or later… how awful though…. =\ the whole situation

]]> By: leah http://pure-essence.net/2004/04/12/hepatitis-b-cause-for-discrimination-in-china/#comment-15699 Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:43:00 +0000 http://regretless.com/?p=823#comment-15699 horrible. That is all just horrible. I can’t believe this is going on.

]]> By: suf-heart http://pure-essence.net/2004/04/12/hepatitis-b-cause-for-discrimination-in-china/#comment-15703 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://regretless.com/?p=823#comment-15703 it’s right ,we can’t study we can’t work.help us!

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