Refusal to provide health care to people with HIV in France.

Caroline Douay (1) , Adeline Toullier (1) , Sarah Benayoun (1) , Daniela Rojas Castro (2) , Pierre Chauvin (3)

1 AIDES association
2 UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2
3 iPLESP - Institut Pierre Louis d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique

Refusals to provide care to people with HIV have been reported in the USA, the UK and elsewhere in Europe but their frequency remains poorly documented. In 2015, the French parliament examined a law that includes an article on non-discrimination in access to health care and the possibility of doing tests to determine the extent and nature of the discrimination. During the legislative debates, AIDES did a situation testing survey4 to ascertain the frequency and nature of refusals to provide dental and gynaecological care to people with HIV. The situation testing survey was done by telephone in 440 dental and 116 gynaecology offices randomly selected in 20 French cities, chosen on the basis of their HIV incidence and medical density for these two specialties.

Domaines: Santé publique et épidémiologie

Caroline Douay, Adeline Toullier, Sarah Benayoun, Daniela Rojas Castro, Pierre Chauvin. Refusal to provide health care to people with HIV in France.. The Lancet, 2016, 387 (10027), pp.1508-1509. ⟨10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30126-X⟩. ⟨hal-01316099⟩