AIDS has had an enormous impact on the legal system as the problems faced by people with Aids have come to touch every aspect of society and its activities. Specific laws have been passed in many jurisdictions, and AIDS has influenced every level of government thinking and action. Thus, after a period of over 10 years of experience with Aids, it seems that the time is right to discuss this issue and accord it the treatment it should have been given. Aids has affected every segment of the population. The effects of the disease are today being felt everywhere - at home, schools, in the employment and economic sector.
Aids presents familiar legal issues in new guises.
These sentiments are also echoed in the International Covenants such the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Once someone is discovered as having AIDS they lose their jobs. Considering the fact that many people are carriers but still stay quite healthy for a long time and still perform their duties well. In hospitals, they are given special treatment but sometimes are chased away to go die in their homes. We treat people suffering from cancer, diabetes and other diseases which do not have cures yet, so why do we treat Aids as a different disease to be shunned and not even talked about.