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Kenya has approved a bill aimed at ending discrimination against all people living with HIV/AIDS, the country's deputy justice minister, Robinson Githae has announced.
The draft law, which would make it illegal for employers to deny a job or promotion to anyone because of their HIV-positive status, could soon go to parliament for debate.
The local East African Standard newspaper quoted Githae as saying, "The draft will make it a criminal offence to discriminate against anyone on the basis of their HIV status."
According to Githae, the law, if passed, would also make it illegal for colleges to refuse admission to HIV-positive students, and make the deliberate spreading of HIV a criminal offence.
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