policies, so that people living with HIV

States should also ensure access to adequate treatment and drugs, within the overall context of their public health policies, so that people living with HIV can live as long and as successfully as possible। People living with HIV should also have access to clinical trials and should be free to choose amongst all available drugs and therapies, including alternative therapies. International support is essential from both the public and private sectors, for developing countries for increased access to health care and treatment, drugs and equipment. In this context, States should ensure that neither expired drugs nor other invalid materials are supplied.
States may have to take special measures to ensure that all groups in society, particularly marginalized groups, have equal access to HIV-related prevention, care and treatment services. The human rights obligations of States to prevent discrimination and to assure medical service and medical attention for everyone in the event of sickness require States to ensure that no one is discriminated against in the health-care setting on the basis of their HIV status.Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control”. Enjoyment of the right to an adequate standard of living is essential to reduce vulnerability to the risk and consequences of HIV infection. It is particularly relevant to meeting the needs of people living with HIV/AIDS, and/or their families, who have become impoverished by HIV/AIDS as a result of increased morbidity due to AIDS and/or discrimination which can result in unemployment, homelessness and poverty. If States introduce priority ranking for such services for resource allocation purposes, then PLHAs and persons with comparable conditions and disabilities should qualify for preferential treatment due to their dire circumstances.States should take steps to ensure that people living with HIV are not discriminatorily denied an adequate standard of living and/or social security and support services on the basis of their health status precondition except the necessary occupational qualifications. This right is violated when an applicant or employee is required to undergo mandatory testing for HIV and is refused employment or dismissed or refused access to employee benefits on the grounds of a positive result. States should ensure that persons with living with HIV are allowed to work as long as they can carry out the functions of the job. Thereafter, as with any other illness, people living with HIV should be provided with reasonable accommodation to be able to continue working as long as possible and, when no longer able to work, be given equal access to existing sickness and disability schemes. The applicant or employee should not be required to disclose his or her HIV status to the employer nor in connection with his or her access to workers’ compensation, pension benefits and health insurance schemes. States’ obligations to prevent all forms of discrimination in the workplace, including on the grounds of HIV, should extend to the private sector.