{{The North Gauteng High Court will on Tuesday hear arguments about the alleged discrimination of HIV-positive members within the SA National Defence Force, The Star reported on Monday.}}<\/p>\n
Applicants claim the SANDF continues to unlawfully exclude new recruits solely on the basis of their HIV status, despite a court order six years ago.<\/p>\n
“It does so regardless of the applicant’s actual state of health, the job to be performed, and regardless of the order of the court,” according to the applicants’ head of arguments.<\/p>\n
The SANDF’s old health classification policy excluded people living with HIV from recruitment, external deployment and promotion, according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n
In 2008, the same court declared that the force’s HIV-testing policy unreasonably and “unjustifiably” infringed on the rights of members.<\/p>\n
The Aids Law Project [now part of Section27] had challenged the exclusion, regardless of a member’s fitness levels and ability to do the job.<\/p>\n
This led to the adoption of a new policy in 2009, which was meant to discontinue the discriminatory policy.<\/p>\n
– SAPA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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