KELIN in partnership with the Kenya Pediatric Association and the National Empowerment Network of People Living with HIV will conduct a two day training for health care workers on 28 and 29 July, 2014 on the Right to Privacy and its link to HIV. The training, which is supported by Privacy International, will draw participants from various health care facilities in the county of Nairobi.
Health care workers are obligated by the law and their professional ethics to uphold the right to privacy and confidentiality. This obligation is important in the context of HIV because the exposure of information relating to ones HIV status without their consent exposes them to human rights violations. Human rights violations against PLHIV, causes them to suffer both the burden of the disease and the consequential loss of other rights.
KELIN aims to ensure the training enhances the knowledge of the health care workers on HIV related legal and policy provisions that relate to the right to privacy and confidentiality.
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