HIV-positive people will now be able to join the national police.
Thanks to the action of LGBTQ + associations, the exclusion of people with HIV is over, reports France Inter.
The decision was taken by the Ministry of the Interior, which repealed the Sigycop, the decree which prohibited people with AIDS from joining the police.
Deemed abusive, the Sigycop prevented people with HIV from applying for a post in the police, or dismissed civil servants already in place.
📢 Press release
End of the systematic exclusion of People Living with HIV from the National Police!
➡️https://t.co/vOcjwSrC5u
—FLAG!
(@flagasso) December 14, 2022
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The army and firefighters still to convince
"Everyone understood that there was no risk in having an undetectable HIV-positive colleague," said Johan Cavirot, president of FLAG, an association for the defense of LGBTQ + people.
But the fight is not over: if the rules have changed for the national police, the army and the fire brigade still refuse to integrate HIV-positive people into their ranks.
The struggle of associations therefore continues to put an end to this discrimination.
"We must study the individual situation of each candidate who wishes to serve his country and join the police, the army or the fire brigade," said the lawyer for several organizations, who together seized the Council of State on this. topic.
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