HIV

Insurance, employment and disclosure

Trying to work out where I actually have to disclose and where I am simply worried. Job applications, travel insurance, mortgages.

oak_table 6 months ago

NoteMember experience, not medical advice. Symptoms overlap between infections and only a test can tell them apart.

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salt_marsh 6 months ago

This is heavily country specific and the answers differ by an enormous margin, so general advice here is close to useless.

What is fairly consistent: employment discrimination protections exist in many places, insurance is a contractual question where non disclosure can void a policy, and the two are governed by completely different rules.

west_pier 6 months ago

HIV organisations in most countries publish specific guidance on exactly this and often run advice lines. That is the right source, not a forum and not a general employment website.

pocket_watch 6 months ago

Ask your clinic whether they have a social worker or an advisor. Mine did and that appointment answered more in an hour than months of searching.

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