HIV-positive patients claim discrimination.
Refusal of a requested health service is a particularly common form of discrimination against people who are HIV positive, Italian researchers say. Anonymous questionnaires were completed by 86 in- and out-patients at one AIDS unit, of whom 63 were intravenous drug users, 11 heterosexual, nine homosexual and three had no known risk factors, Eighty- four were HIV-positive and the other two were at high risk of infection.