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188908
Thu, 06/16/2011 - 05:47
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U.N. Slams North Korea's Immigration Policy on HIV Carriers
A United Nations health body recently criticized North Korea's immigration policy that banishes HIV carriers from the country as being discriminatory, a media report said.
In a June 14 interview with U.S.-based broadcaster Radio Free Asia (RFA), Jason Sigurdson, a researcher at the Joint United Nations Program on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), said the deportation policy of HIV patients was a discriminatory policy which the U.N. clearly objects to.
North Korea from 1998 to 2008 reportedly deported 28 foreign nationals who were HIV positive. In a 2010 report, UNAIDS pointed out that North Korea continued to discriminate or limit entry of HIV positive foreign nationals.
The report did not include HIV- or AIDS-related data on North Korea, as Pyongyang failed to provide any pertinent information, according to UNAIDS
In a June 14 interview with U.S.-based broadcaster Radio Free Asia (RFA), Jason Sigurdson, a researcher at the Joint United Nations Program on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), said the deportation policy of HIV patients was a discriminatory policy which the U.N. clearly objects to.
North Korea from 1998 to 2008 reportedly deported 28 foreign nationals who were HIV positive. In a 2010 report, UNAIDS pointed out that North Korea continued to discriminate or limit entry of HIV positive foreign nationals.
The report did not include HIV- or AIDS-related data on North Korea, as Pyongyang failed to provide any pertinent information, according to UNAIDS
