Council: Student told to explain HIV infection or be barred


KUALA LUMPUR: A university dean allegedly asked a student to explain in a letter how he contracted HIV failing which he would be barred from graduating.

The Malaysian AIDS Council said this was among 17 cases of alleged discrimination against people living with HIV (PLHIV) that the MAC had compiled in its HIV & Human Rights Mitigation Report 2013: Paving the Road to Zero Discrimination.

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