Discrimination against people with HIV
AIDS testing usually means screening out HIV+ applicants for housing, medical aid schemes and insurance, military and police and private sector recruits, immigrants, potential public employees, applicants for training, and medical patients.
In some provinces of South Africa, one in five applicants for housing loans simultaneously receive their rejection letter and the news that they are HIV+. One in ten Thai Army recruits are sent home with no ongoing support -rejected because of HIV.
Several countries use HIV testing as a means of repression against migrant workers, refugees, those suspected of drug use, prostitution or homosexuality. In many cases, the penalty for testing postive is indefinite detention, or forced relocation. In 1993, HIV+ Burmese sex workers deported from Thailand were immediately killed by their country's military regime.