La exclusión de las personas con VHI de los cuerpos uniformados de seguridad en España

Abstract

The linkage generated between human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and security has created a legal barrier that prevents persons with HIV from gaining access to uniformed security bodies. In Spain, persons with HIV are excluded in the medical conditions charts and in the medical tests included in the public examinations for access to uniformed security bodies at national, regional and local levels. The scientific evidence supporting HIV strategy of treatment-asprevention entails that a generic exclusion based on the person with HIV¿s health condition could be an excessive limitation upon the right to have access to the public service and also a differentiated treatment that is discriminatory because such exclusion is not necessary, neither reasonable nor proportional in the light of the intended objective.

Keywords

• legal clinic
• safety
• rights
• hiv
• discrimination
• equality