A domestic worker has complained to the SA [South African] Human Rights Commission about hospital staff telling her employer she is HIV positive, The Times reported on Monday.
“You are dying and pregnant… I know… the lab told me you are sick,” her boss reportedly yelled at her when she arrived at work after spending three days in the Steve Biko Academic Hospital, in Pretoria.
The 41-year-old woman was angry that a National Health Laboratory Services’ technician had allegedly ignored her right to privacy and disclosed her HIV status to her employer without her consent.
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