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Virginians with AIDS in our state regularly find that medical or dental evaluation and treatment is denied, delayed or offered in an unacceptable and hurtful way. As jobs are lost because of discrimination or disability and financial resources drain away, people with AIDS become dependent on increasingly scarce public resources and programs.
Most long-term care facilities in Virginia do not accept people with AIDS. Waiting lists, delayed appointments, poor housing arrangements, unnecessarily prolonged hospitalizations and isolation result.
Fear and ignorance also underlie the many other forms of discrimination against persons in this state living with HIV infection and AIDS. People lose jobs, insurance, housing and access to facilities or activities because they have AIDS, or because their blood test for antibodies to HIV is positive.
They suffer a series of oppressive and insulting encounters with agencies or individuals who would prefer to exclude, evict or fire them — and all too often, people with AIDS are reluctant to challenge discriminatory actions because they fear worse consequences from more extensive public disclosure of their illness.
The reality is that existing antidiscrimination. laws in Virginia as profession because they are gay,
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