webfact Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 VN woman seeks lawsuit after 9 years living with HIV misdiagnosis, discriminationVIETNAM: -- A woman in Vietnam's northern province of Hung Yen says she will sue a local hospital that allegedly misdiagnosed her as HIV-positive nine years ago, according to Thanh Nien News.Do Thi An, 39, of the province’s My Hao district, said relevant individuals will have to be held accountable for the malpractice that has caused her a lot of misery over the past years.The woman said she was receiving treatment at the Hung Yen Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Hospital in 2006 when, unbeknown to her, she was named in a list of locals with HIV. After that she began to be a victim of discrimination in her neighbourhood and never knew why.In 2007, she moved to the southern beach town of Vung Tau to work in a factory and got married. After giving birth in 2008, she brought her husband and daughter to visit her parents in Hung Yen, where her husband started to hear rumours about her HIV status, she said.The husband forced her and their daughter out of their house.In April 2014, she took a test and was found negative. But the rumours never died down.After she was pregnant early this year, she took another test and was still negative.On July 20, she and her family were invited to the Hung Yen Health Department, which offered an apology.But An decided to file a lawsuit after nearly a decade of suffering. Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/vn-woman-seeks-lawsuit-after-9-years-living-with-hiv-misdiagnosis-discrimination -- Thai PBS 2015-07-24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petmag Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Poor woman, all those years of worry, and then, her and her daughter being thrown out of their home.. I wish her well filing her lawsuit.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MockingJay Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Reading this might enlighten some people: http://www.naturalnews.com/027631_AIDS_House_of_Numbers.html# Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kannikapor88 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Poor woman - what a ba§tard she was married to, throwing her and their daughter out of their house ... Hope she gets plenty from the hospital in damages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammygood Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 good she is not hiv positive (anymore) but getting children while you think you are and having unprotected sex , how would you call that ? maybe she cured herself ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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