Abstract

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) significantly attributes to social stigmatization, besides being a health concern. It is one of the major responsibilities of the health care providers to practice caution before labeling a person with such diagnosis, as sometimes it is predicted to be false-positive. No doubt, health care employees are not exempted from acquiring the disease. However, inaccurate decisions could cause abundant consequences on a person’s personal and psychosocial wellbeing. Therefore, the higher management team of an entity has the prime responsibility to be fair with the employees and utilize the principle of justice in their actions. Indeed, moral responsibilities and ethical values play an important role in fairly decision-making in everyone’s life. Afghan women suffer from various unhealthy cultural and traditional practices besides other social inequalities. For this, strategies to encourage women in labor market and avoid gender discrimination must be launched. Furthermore, attempts to maintain justice through designing specific policy and protocol to avoid errors within an organization must be prioritized.

Highlights

  • Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a viral infection that affects the immune system of an individual

  • It is estimated by United Nation programs for AIDS (UNAIDS) and Pakistan national AIDS control program that there are around 79,000 cases of HIV in Pakistan [1]

  • Considering the above scenario: was justice implied to aforementioned employee? Was the decision taken by the senior management fair and morally acceptable? I personally believe that it was not ethically a fair decision even if the employee would have been HIV true-positive

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Introduction

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a viral infection that affects the immune system of an individual. According to World Health Organization report (2013), around 35.3 million people in 2012 were living with HIV where the prevalence was highest among males. In Afghanistan the registry for this fatal ailment may not be comprehensive, it is believed that around 5,000 people are living with HIV [2] This number may not depict the actual figure, as millions of Afghans are immigrant in different countries and would have acquired the infection. A 20-year-old female working as a laboratory technician was diagnosed as HIV positive in a tertiary care hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. She was terminated from her job based on the decision taken by the senior management of the hospital.

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