People Living With HIV (PLWHIV) recently scored a win: The Supreme Court has affirmed that firing an employee for testing positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is illegal and discriminatory. This is a fair warning for employers—here and abroad—to stop discriminatory practices like this. In a decision promulgated last February, the high court found that the dismissal of an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) deployed as a cleaner to Saudi Arabia in 2017 under a two-year contract
This probably is a question posted to anyone growing up: “Ano ang gusto mo paglaki mo?” My answer: ”Gusto ko po maging doktor.” My parents were not physicians, and to my recollection, my only exposure was to my pediatrician, whom I would regularly see for the frequent benign febrile convulsions experienced and other common childhood illnesses. East Avenue Medical Center was then known as GSIS in the ’70s and was my usual place for confinement. Memories of how I would have an intravenous line threaded into my scalp since my veins were so hard to locate remain. Yes, I was a
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