Home>News Center>China
       
 

HBV victims face improved job chances
By Zhang Feng (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-01-19 23:58

More than half of hepatitis B patients have lost out on an ideal job or educational opportunity because of their disease, a sample survey shows.

However, China has made some progress in protecting the working rights of hepatitis B virus (HBV) carriers, said Weng Xinhua, an expert from the Chinese Medical Association.

The ministries of personnel and health revised national standards covering health qualifications for public servants saying that HBV carriers who do not show symptoms can still apply for jobs in the public service.

And Zhang Xianzhu, a young man in Wuhu of East China's Anhui Province, won the country's first job discrimination case involving the rights of non-infectious HBV carriers in early 2004.

Zhang sued the Wuhu municipal government's personnel affairs bureau in December of 2003 after he was rejected for employment because he has HBV.

And Hunan Province also cancelled the regulation forbidding HBV carriers to be public servants last year.

Meanwhile, the amended Chinese Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, which became effective last December 1, also says that companies and persons cannot discriminate HBV carriers.

China has 120-million HBV carriers, nearly a 10th of its population, and 30 million of them have become active patients, said Weng at a meeting Wednesday.

But Meng added: "The hepatitis B virus (HBV) brings out a lot of bad effects on people's health, work, and family and social activities."

Among these bad effects, discrimination is still a quite outstanding problem, said Weng Wednesday in Beijing, as he reported the results of the survey to the media.

About 52 per cent of the 425 hepatitis B patients surveyed said they once lost a job or educational chance due to their disease.

And 47 per cent worry their employers might lay them off if they discover they are HBV sufferers, the survey actually done by Synovate Healthcare, a company headquartered in London.

The patients come from six cities, including Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Wuhan and Shenyang, and took the survey from October to November of 2004.

Some 380 people of those questioned were aged 20 to 50, of prime working age, Weng noted.

However, Weng said, discrimination is still widely existing among the public and employers.

There is a long way to go to change the present situation because the survey shows that the HBV carriers are still being looked down upon in many fields and places, Weng added.

The source of the discrimination is the public not understanding HBV, which cannot be transmitted through common contacts, such as shaking hands or taking a dinner together. Weng said.

Education is quite vital not only for the public but also for the employers or officials, he noted.

"I want to cry, I am hopeless and do not know where my future is," said Fan Dingding, an assumed name for an HBV carrier, on the forum of www.hbvhbv.com, a famous web site established by HBV volunteers.

Fan, a university student from Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong Province, said he will graduate this summer, but has been refused by four companies for the virus in his body.

Many HBV carriers appealed on the web site that the law and government should list the HBV infection as a private thing and should be deleted from the required items of health examination as people seeking for a job.



 
  Today's Top News     Top China News
 

Japan touts high-speed rail caliber

 

   
 

Global tsunami death toll tops 226,000

 

   
 

Four more years of Bush agitates world

 

   
 

Panda numbers up 40 per cent

 

   
  Hostages' families pray for safe return
   
  Surgeons lend more than a helping hand
   
  Beijing feels the pinch of winter gas shortage
   
  Official warned for mine blast
   
  Airlines sign ground service pact
   
  Japan touts high-speed rail caliber
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  News Talk  
  It is time to prepare for Beijing - 2008  
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: 免费国产在线观看| 国产精品熟女一区二区| 久久亚洲AV无码精品色午夜麻豆| 欧美精品blacked中文字幕| 免费看美女部位隐私直播| 色欲国产麻豆一精品一AV一免费| 国产成人综合久久| 18禁无遮挡羞羞污污污污免费| 天堂中文字幕在线观看| 一本大道久久a久久综合| 无码精品a∨在线观看无广告| 久久精品国产亚洲av无码麻豆| 欧美人与性动交α欧美精品 | 99久久人妻精品免费一区| 彩虹男gary网站| 中文字幕在线观看国产| 日本在线观看免费看片| 国产人成视频在线视频| 足恋玩丝袜脚视频免费网站| 国自产精品手机在线观看视频 | 欧美激情第一欧美在线| 人人妻人人澡人人爽人人精品浪潮 | 高清国语自产拍免费视频国产| 国产的一级毛片最新在线直播| 4hu44四虎在线观看| 国内精品久久久人妻中文字幕| 99精品视频在线观看re| 天堂资源bt种子在线| porn在线精品视频| 婷婷影院在线观看| 一本一道久久综合久久| 性做久久久久久久久| 丝袜捆绑调教视频免费区| 成人国产精品视频| 两个人看的视频高清在线www| 成人黄色在线观看| 亚洲小视频在线观看| 欧美色欧美亚洲另类二区| 四虎影视成人永久在线播放| 草草影院ccyy国产日本欧美| 国产伦精品一区二区免费|