Stakeholder Summary >> Tunisia, Review Documentation, 41st session, November 2022

The Association Tunisienne de Prévention Positive (ATP+), JS8 and JS9 reported that persons living with HIV are subject to multiple forms of discrimination owing to limited access to HIV care services, stigmatization (including on the part of paramedical and medical personnel) and the non-respect of medical secrecy in hospitals. They recommended eliminating all forms of discrimination against them, in law and in practice, ensuring genuine and free services to provide all HIV-related care, establishing quality local services, training medical and paramedical personnel to observe medical secrecy and respect human rights and introducing into the 1992 law on communicable diseases a rights-based approach, or even adopting a new law. [Para 44]