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Law No. 2005-31
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Political / Illegal Activity
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p.000004: undertakes to:
p.000004: - provide personally or with the help of qualified third parties all medical care in their power and
p.000004: necessary in the circumstances;
p.000004: - always act with correction, empathy and with kindness towards the patient.
p.000004: Article 12: The health worker called emergency to a minor or an incapable adult
p.000004: living with HIV / AIDS, when it is not possible to obtain timely consent from the
p.000004: legal representative, has the obligation to give the necessary care.
p.000004: Article 13: The State takes all the measures to make compulsory the medical follow-up of people to
p.000004: the high HIV transmission potential of sex workers, homosexuals,
p.000004: intravenous drug users and encourage voluntary HIV testing.
p.000004: TITLE V:
p.000004: AIDS IN THE MIDDLE OF WORK
p.000004: Article 14: The employer in the public, semi-public or private sector cannot require a candidate to be hired
p.000004: or the HIV testing test / recruitment competition.
p.000004: Article 15: Refusal to select a candidate for a recruitment test / competition or to hire a
p.000004: jobseekers on the grounds that they have HIV is a crime.
p.000004: Article 16: The dismissal of a worker on the grounds that he is carrying HIV is abusive.
p.000004: Article 17: The State and its decentralized structures as well as private or semi-public structures must
p.000004: encourage, through measures, donations and subsidies, families and reception centers to receive
p.000004: orphans and children vulnerable to AIDS.
p.000004: Article 18: Any attitude or regulatory provision is prohibited in the workplace
p.000004: likely to discriminate against or stigmatize a worker
p.000005: 5
p.000005: made of his HIV status, such as refusal of promotion, refusal of opportunities for
p.000005: internships or other types of training, access to social protection benefits.
p.000005: Article 19: When an employee infected with HIV cannot continue to exercise their functions for
p.000005: cause of health, the employer is obliged to establish an arrangement allowing the worker to continue his
p.000005: work as long as possible in accordance with the regulations in force.
p.000005: Article 20: All employers in the public, private or semi-public sector are required to define and implement
p.000005: implement a STI / HIV / AIDS prevention policy and care for PLWHA.
p.000005: Article 21: Any health worker infected with HIV in the exercise of their functions
p.000005: benefits from medical and social care.
p.000005: TITLE VI:
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Political / criminal
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p.000002: must be gender sensitive, precise and understandable.
p.000002: Anyone tested positive for HIV has the obligation to inform their partner (s), with the support of a
p.000002: advise if necessary.
p.000002: The partner (s), on the basis of free and informed consent, will be tested for HIV and, in
p.000002: if positive, will receive the necessary information, prevention advice, and appropriate care.
p.000002: The medical profession must ensure that the information and exchange elements have been clearly understood.
p.000003: 3
p.000003: Article 5: Everyone infected or affected by HIV has the right to confidentiality and respect for
p.000003: his private life. Restrictions can only be made in exceptional circumstances.
p.000003: Article 6: The doctor or any person holding, by profession, information on the status
p.000003: patient's serology, cannot disclose it to other people without the patient's prior notice, except in
p.000003: the following cases:
p.000003: - cases of extreme necessity;
p.000003: - patient unable to consent;
p.000003: - HIV-positive person whose behavior is likely to endanger the health of others;
p.000003: - minors and incapable persons.
p.000003: Article 7: The doctor is required, in criminal matters and at the request of the judge, to make available to the
p.000003: jurisdiction, the results of the analysis performed on a patient.
p.000003: TITLE III
p.000003: THE IMPACT OF AIDS ON THE INDIVIDUAL, SOCIETY AND THE WORLD
p.000003: Article 8: Anyone suffering from AIDS or carrying HIV has the right to declare it to the social services
p.000003: sanitary facilities.
p.000003: In the event of express declaration of the disease to the aforementioned structures, people suffering from AIDS or carrying the
p.000003: HIV receive special assistance.
p.000003: This declaration must be duly verified by a doctor.
p.000003: Minor children of people who died from AIDS receive medical assistance
p.000003: and psychosocial assistance from the community, the State and its decentralized structures, or
p.000003: decentralized.
p.000003: To this end, a special fund for struggle and assistance in matters of
p.000003: AIDS.
p.000003: A decree issued by the Council of Ministers will fix the procedures for its creation and
p.000003: Operating.
p.000003: Article 9: People suffering from AIDS or carrying HIV receive all medical care adapted to the disease
p.000003: in accordance with article 18 of law 2003-04 of 03 March 2003 relating to sexual health and reproduction.
p.000003: Article 10: Anyone who has reached the required legal age, and who decides to marry, does so with their free and
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p.000005: work as long as possible in accordance with the regulations in force.
p.000005: Article 20: All employers in the public, private or semi-public sector are required to define and implement
p.000005: implement a STI / HIV / AIDS prevention policy and care for PLWHA.
p.000005: Article 21: Any health worker infected with HIV in the exercise of their functions
p.000005: benefits from medical and social care.
p.000005: TITLE VI:
p.000005: AIDS AND HEALTH INSURANCE
p.000005: Article 22: It is prohibited for any insurance company to condition the subscription to a policy
p.000005: health insurance to a pre-test for HIV.
p.000005: TITLE VII:
p.000005: PENAL PROVISIONS
p.000005: Article 23: The violation by any health worker of the ethical rules set out in title IV of this
p.000005: law, will be punished in accordance with the provisions of the penal code.
p.000005: In the event of recurrence, the suspension for at least five (05) years of exercising his profession will be pronounced against the
p.000005: guilty.
p.000005: Anyone who contravenes the prohibition to practice his profession, imposed under the previous paragraph will be punished with a
p.000005: imprisonment from one (01) year to three
p.000005: (03) years and a fine of two hundred thousand (200,000) to one million (1,000,000) CFA francs or one of these two
p.000005: penalties only.
p.000005: Article 24: Any person holding by profession secrets related to HIV / AIDS of a patient and who
p.000005: guilty of disclosure falls under the provisions of the criminal provisions on the
p.000005: disclosure of professional secrecy.
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p.000006: This penalty may be increased when this disclosure has resulted in:
p.000006: - the divorce ;
p.000006: - loss of employment and / or material goods;
p.000006: - suicide.
p.000006: Article 25: Any health worker who does not comply with the provisions of article 12 of this law
p.000006: will be liable to a sentence of three (03) months to one (01) to three (03 years imprisonment and a fine of two hundred
p.000006: one thousand (200,000) francs to five hundred thousand (500,000) CFA francs or one of these two penalties only.
p.000006: The ban on exercising for a period not exceeding six (06) to twelve (12) months may be pronounced against
p.000006: the guilty.
p.000006: In the event of an offense committed in a social health structure or private biological analysis, the
p.000006: suspension or final withdrawal of the establishment's approval may be pronounced for a
p.000006: period not exceeding twelve
p.000006: (12 months.
p.000006: Article 26: The violation of the provisions of articles 14, 15 and 16 of this law is punished
p.000006: to a fine of two hundred thousand (200,000) francs to one million (1,000,000) CFA francs, without prejudice to
p.000006: damages which may be claimed from it.
p.000006: In the event of a repeat offense, the penalties are doubled.
p.000006: Article 27: Anyone knowing that he is infected with the AIDS virus, and who knowingly maintains relationships
p.000006: unprotected sex with a partner who is not aware of their HIV status, even if they or
p.000006: this one is HIV positive, will be punished with criminal imprisonment from five (05) to ten
p.000006: (10) years and a fine of one million (1,000,000) francs to five million (5,000,000) CFA francs.
p.000006: Article 28: Laboratories or similar institutions are prohibited from accepting or storing blood donation,
p.000006: tissue or organs without a blood, tissue or organ sample tested negative for HIV.
p.000006: Article 29: Whoever administered voluntarily, in any way whatsoever, blood
p.000006: infected with HIV to a person, will be punished with life imprisonment.
p.000006: If the act was committed through negligence, recklessness, clumsiness or non-compliance with the regulations by
p.000006: any person, the culprit will be punished by one (01) year to five (05) years of imprisonment.
p.000006: Article 30: Anyone knowing that he is infected with the AIDS virus who, using violence, coercion or surprise,
p.000006: not have sex
p.000007: 7
p.000007: protected of any kind whatsoever with a person, will be punished with time imprisonment for five
p.000007: (05) at twenty (20) years and a fine of three million (3,000,000) francs to ten million (10,000,000) francs
p.000007: CFA.
p.000007: If the act was committed under threat by one or more persons, by a legitimate, natural or adoptive ascendant of
p.000007: the victim or by a person who has abused the authority conferred on him by his functions, over a vulnerable person,
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Political / political affiliation
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p.000001: Approved persons: natural or legal persons legally and legally authorized to issue
p.000001: a medical certificate or any other administrative document attesting to the state of health of a PLWHA;
p.000001: Employer: Any person or organization employing workers under an employment contract
p.000001: written or oral which establishes the rights and duties of the parties, in accordance with law and practice
p.000001: national. Can be employers, Government, public authorities, public or private companies and
p.000001: the details ;
p.000001: Accommodation: Adaptation of the job or the working environment which is reasonably achievable and which allows
p.000001: PLHIV to have access to employment, to work or to gain advancement.
p.000001: HIV / AIDS counseling: Communication technique which consists in informing the patient about HIV / AIDS, how to
p.000001: contamination, means of screening, treatment and prevention as well as the consequences on partners
p.000001: before and after the test.
p.000001: Gender: It is the recognition of the difference between man and woman without implying a difference in treatment.
p.000002: 2
p.000002: TITLE II
p.000002: THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION AND PROCESSING
p.000002: Article 2: Anyone with a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) or living with the
p.000002: HIV, must enjoy without discrimination, civil, political and social rights (housing, education, employment, health,
p.000002: social protection etc.)
p.000002: She has the right to benefit from special assistance, basic care, treatment and a guarantee
p.000002: confidentiality in its relations with the socio-health professional.
p.000002: People with HIV or AIDS who report it receive assistance
p.000002: special advice, psychosocial, nutritional, medical, material support; they receive
p.000002: medical care, in accordance with the standards and procedures in force.
p.000002: Special assistance in counseling, psychosocial, nutritional, medical and material support must
p.000002: be provided by the family, the State and its decentralized and decentralized structures, civil society,
p.000002: communities and anyone in a position to provide such assistance.
p.000002: Article 3: All HIV testing must be done with the free and informed consent of the person concerned and
p.000002: accompanied by pre and post test HIV / AIDS counseling. For minors or incapacitated persons, the
p.000002: consent of the legal representative may be required.
p.000002: Article 4: The doctor who has found that a person has HIV or has AIDS has the obligation to do so
p.000002: condition to the patient but cannot in any case disclose this information. However the statistical data
p.000002: must be transmitted to the Ministry responsible for health.
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Political / vulnerable
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p.000001: spouse, siblings died from HIV or has HIV;
p.000001: STI: sexually transmitted infections which are the main entry points for HIV in
p.000001: the organization;
p.000001: ARV: Antiretrovirals which are drugs which act on different phases of replication of the virus;
p.000001: 1
p.000001: Socio-sanitary structures: Health centers, counseling and listening centers, care centers
p.000001: public, private, associative, faith-based or for-profit psychosocial work;
p.000001: Management of PLWHA: offer of medical services (consultations, care, treatment with ARVs,
p.000001: minimum package of psychosocial and nutritional biological examinations;
p.000001: Special assistance: medical, psychosocial, and / or nutritional services offered free of charge to
p.000001: Very poor PLHIV;
p.000001: Incapable: subjects with mental retardation (senile or pathological dementia, etc.) and incapacity
p.000001: physical (bedridden patients who necessarily need assistance to meet their basic needs);
p.000001: Social health service providers: person, community or public, semi-public or private structure that
p.000001: offers socio-health services;
p.000001: People at high risk: sex workers posted or clandestine who have sex
p.000001: against remuneration;
p.000001: Vulnerable people: children, women and all other incapacitated people;
p.000001: Approved persons: natural or legal persons legally and legally authorized to issue
p.000001: a medical certificate or any other administrative document attesting to the state of health of a PLWHA;
p.000001: Employer: Any person or organization employing workers under an employment contract
p.000001: written or oral which establishes the rights and duties of the parties, in accordance with law and practice
p.000001: national. Can be employers, Government, public authorities, public or private companies and
p.000001: the details ;
p.000001: Accommodation: Adaptation of the job or the working environment which is reasonably achievable and which allows
p.000001: PLHIV to have access to employment, to work or to gain advancement.
p.000001: HIV / AIDS counseling: Communication technique which consists in informing the patient about HIV / AIDS, how to
p.000001: contamination, means of screening, treatment and prevention as well as the consequences on partners
p.000001: before and after the test.
p.000001: Gender: It is the recognition of the difference between man and woman without implying a difference in treatment.
p.000002: 2
p.000002: TITLE II
p.000002: THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION AND PROCESSING
p.000002: Article 2: Anyone with a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) or living with the
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p.000004: living with HIV / AIDS, when it is not possible to obtain timely consent from the
p.000004: legal representative, has the obligation to give the necessary care.
p.000004: Article 13: The State takes all the measures to make compulsory the medical follow-up of people to
p.000004: the high HIV transmission potential of sex workers, homosexuals,
p.000004: intravenous drug users and encourage voluntary HIV testing.
p.000004: TITLE V:
p.000004: AIDS IN THE MIDDLE OF WORK
p.000004: Article 14: The employer in the public, semi-public or private sector cannot require a candidate to be hired
p.000004: or the HIV testing test / recruitment competition.
p.000004: Article 15: Refusal to select a candidate for a recruitment test / competition or to hire a
p.000004: jobseekers on the grounds that they have HIV is a crime.
p.000004: Article 16: The dismissal of a worker on the grounds that he is carrying HIV is abusive.
p.000004: Article 17: The State and its decentralized structures as well as private or semi-public structures must
p.000004: encourage, through measures, donations and subsidies, families and reception centers to receive
p.000004: orphans and children vulnerable to AIDS.
p.000004: Article 18: Any attitude or regulatory provision is prohibited in the workplace
p.000004: likely to discriminate against or stigmatize a worker
p.000005: 5
p.000005: made of his HIV status, such as refusal of promotion, refusal of opportunities for
p.000005: internships or other types of training, access to social protection benefits.
p.000005: Article 19: When an employee infected with HIV cannot continue to exercise their functions for
p.000005: cause of health, the employer is obliged to establish an arrangement allowing the worker to continue his
p.000005: work as long as possible in accordance with the regulations in force.
p.000005: Article 20: All employers in the public, private or semi-public sector are required to define and implement
p.000005: implement a STI / HIV / AIDS prevention policy and care for PLWHA.
p.000005: Article 21: Any health worker infected with HIV in the exercise of their functions
p.000005: benefits from medical and social care.
p.000005: TITLE VI:
p.000005: AIDS AND HEALTH INSURANCE
p.000005: Article 22: It is prohibited for any insurance company to condition the subscription to a policy
p.000005: health insurance to a pre-test for HIV.
p.000005: TITLE VII:
p.000005: PENAL PROVISIONS
p.000005: Article 23: The violation by any health worker of the ethical rules set out in title IV of this
p.000005: law, will be punished in accordance with the provisions of the penal code.
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p.000006: (10) years and a fine of one million (1,000,000) francs to five million (5,000,000) CFA francs.
p.000006: Article 28: Laboratories or similar institutions are prohibited from accepting or storing blood donation,
p.000006: tissue or organs without a blood, tissue or organ sample tested negative for HIV.
p.000006: Article 29: Whoever administered voluntarily, in any way whatsoever, blood
p.000006: infected with HIV to a person, will be punished with life imprisonment.
p.000006: If the act was committed through negligence, recklessness, clumsiness or non-compliance with the regulations by
p.000006: any person, the culprit will be punished by one (01) year to five (05) years of imprisonment.
p.000006: Article 30: Anyone knowing that he is infected with the AIDS virus who, using violence, coercion or surprise,
p.000006: not have sex
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p.000007: protected of any kind whatsoever with a person, will be punished with time imprisonment for five
p.000007: (05) at twenty (20) years and a fine of three million (3,000,000) francs to ten million (10,000,000) francs
p.000007: CFA.
p.000007: If the act was committed under threat by one or more persons, by a legitimate, natural or adoptive ascendant of
p.000007: the victim or by a person who has abused the authority conferred on him by his functions, over a vulnerable person,
p.000007: an incapacitated person or a minor, the penalty will be life imprisonment.
p.000007: Article 31: The fact of practicing or having practiced on a person infected with HIV, a
p.000007: biomedical research without having obtained the informed and express consent of the person concerned,
p.000007: of holders of parental authority or of the tutor is punished by two (02) years to five (05) years of imprisonment and
p.000007: from a fine of five million (5,000,000) francs to twenty million (20,000,000) francs
p.000007: CFA.
p.000007: The same penalties apply when biomedical research is carried out when consent has been given.
p.000007: been removed.
p.000007: Article 32: Anyone who has exhibited or caused to be exhibited, neglected or caused to be abandoned, in a solitary place, a
p.000007: a child or an adult incapacitated suffering from AIDS, will be, for this sole fact, sentenced to imprisonment for one (01) year at
p.000007: three (03) years and a fine of fifty thousand (50,000) francs to two hundred thousand (200,000) CFA francs,
p.000007: or only one of these two sentences.
p.000007: Article 33: Will be punished by imprisonment from six (06) months to two (02) years and a fine of one hundred thousand
p.000007: (100,000) francs to one million (1,000,000) francs or one of these two penalties only:
p.000007: 1- The father or mother who gives up on the grounds of HIV seropositivity, during
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Health / Drug Usage
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p.000003: in accordance with article 18 of law 2003-04 of 03 March 2003 relating to sexual health and reproduction.
p.000003: Article 10: Anyone who has reached the required legal age, and who decides to marry, does so with their free and
p.000003: full consent. During the premarital examination, HIV testing should be offered to future spouses.
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p.000004: TITLE IV:
p.000004: MEDICAL ETHICS
p.000004: Article 11: The health worker who has agreed to provide care for a person living with HIV / AIDS
p.000004: undertakes to:
p.000004: - provide personally or with the help of qualified third parties all medical care in their power and
p.000004: necessary in the circumstances;
p.000004: - always act with correction, empathy and with kindness towards the patient.
p.000004: Article 12: The health worker called emergency to a minor or an incapable adult
p.000004: living with HIV / AIDS, when it is not possible to obtain timely consent from the
p.000004: legal representative, has the obligation to give the necessary care.
p.000004: Article 13: The State takes all the measures to make compulsory the medical follow-up of people to
p.000004: the high HIV transmission potential of sex workers, homosexuals,
p.000004: intravenous drug users and encourage voluntary HIV testing.
p.000004: TITLE V:
p.000004: AIDS IN THE MIDDLE OF WORK
p.000004: Article 14: The employer in the public, semi-public or private sector cannot require a candidate to be hired
p.000004: or the HIV testing test / recruitment competition.
p.000004: Article 15: Refusal to select a candidate for a recruitment test / competition or to hire a
p.000004: jobseekers on the grounds that they have HIV is a crime.
p.000004: Article 16: The dismissal of a worker on the grounds that he is carrying HIV is abusive.
p.000004: Article 17: The State and its decentralized structures as well as private or semi-public structures must
p.000004: encourage, through measures, donations and subsidies, families and reception centers to receive
p.000004: orphans and children vulnerable to AIDS.
p.000004: Article 18: Any attitude or regulatory provision is prohibited in the workplace
p.000004: likely to discriminate against or stigmatize a worker
p.000005: 5
p.000005: made of his HIV status, such as refusal of promotion, refusal of opportunities for
p.000005: internships or other types of training, access to social protection benefits.
p.000005: Article 19: When an employee infected with HIV cannot continue to exercise their functions for
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Health / HIV/AIDS
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p.000001: REPUBLIC OF BENIN PRESIDENCY OF THE REPUBLIC
p.000001: LAW N ° 2005-31 OF APRIL 05, 2006
p.000001: Concerning prevention, care and control of HIV AIDS in the Republic of Benin.
p.000001: The NATIONAL ASSEMBLY deliberated and adopted in its session of Thursday August 18, 2005 then in its session of January 30, 2006
p.000001: following Decision DCC 05-141 of November 21, 2005 of the Constitutional Court, for compliance with
p.000001: the Constitution,
p.000001: Following the Decision of the Constitutional Court DCC 06-041 of April 04, 2006 for conformity with the Constitution,
p.000001: THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC promulgates the following law:
p.000001: PRELIMINARY TITLE
p.000001: GENERAL PROVISIONS
p.000001: Article 1: Definitions of terms and concepts:
p.000001: HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus responsible for the infection. There are two serotypes and several
p.000001: subtypes:
p.000001: AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. It is the final stage of the disease characterized by the appearance of
p.000001: opportunistic diseases and increased viral load;
p.000001: PLWHIV: Person living with HIV;
p.000001: People affected by HIV: Anyone with a direct parent: father, mother, children or
p.000001: spouse, siblings died from HIV or has HIV;
p.000001: STI: sexually transmitted infections which are the main entry points for HIV in
p.000001: the organization;
p.000001: ARV: Antiretrovirals which are drugs which act on different phases of replication of the virus;
p.000001: 1
p.000001: Socio-sanitary structures: Health centers, counseling and listening centers, care centers
p.000001: public, private, associative, faith-based or for-profit psychosocial work;
p.000001: Management of PLWHA: offer of medical services (consultations, care, treatment with ARVs,
p.000001: minimum package of psychosocial and nutritional biological examinations;
p.000001: Special assistance: medical, psychosocial, and / or nutritional services offered free of charge to
p.000001: Very poor PLHIV;
p.000001: Incapable: subjects with mental retardation (senile or pathological dementia, etc.) and incapacity
p.000001: physical (bedridden patients who necessarily need assistance to meet their basic needs);
p.000001: Social health service providers: person, community or public, semi-public or private structure that
p.000001: offers socio-health services;
p.000001: People at high risk: sex workers posted or clandestine who have sex
p.000001: against remuneration;
p.000001: Vulnerable people: children, women and all other incapacitated people;
p.000001: Approved persons: natural or legal persons legally and legally authorized to issue
p.000001: a medical certificate or any other administrative document attesting to the state of health of a PLWHA;
p.000001: Employer: Any person or organization employing workers under an employment contract
p.000001: written or oral which establishes the rights and duties of the parties, in accordance with law and practice
p.000001: national. Can be employers, Government, public authorities, public or private companies and
p.000001: the details ;
p.000001: Accommodation: Adaptation of the job or the working environment which is reasonably achievable and which allows
p.000001: PLHIV to have access to employment, to work or to gain advancement.
p.000001: HIV / AIDS counseling: Communication technique which consists in informing the patient about HIV / AIDS, how to
p.000001: contamination, means of screening, treatment and prevention as well as the consequences on partners
p.000001: before and after the test.
p.000001: Gender: It is the recognition of the difference between man and woman without implying a difference in treatment.
p.000002: 2
p.000002: TITLE II
p.000002: THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION AND PROCESSING
p.000002: Article 2: Anyone with a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) or living with the
p.000002: HIV, must enjoy without discrimination, civil, political and social rights (housing, education, employment, health,
p.000002: social protection etc.)
p.000002: She has the right to benefit from special assistance, basic care, treatment and a guarantee
p.000002: confidentiality in its relations with the socio-health professional.
p.000002: People with HIV or AIDS who report it receive assistance
p.000002: special advice, psychosocial, nutritional, medical, material support; they receive
p.000002: medical care, in accordance with the standards and procedures in force.
p.000002: Special assistance in counseling, psychosocial, nutritional, medical and material support must
p.000002: be provided by the family, the State and its decentralized and decentralized structures, civil society,
p.000002: communities and anyone in a position to provide such assistance.
p.000002: Article 3: All HIV testing must be done with the free and informed consent of the person concerned and
p.000002: accompanied by pre and post test HIV / AIDS counseling. For minors or incapacitated persons, the
p.000002: consent of the legal representative may be required.
p.000002: Article 4: The doctor who has found that a person has HIV or has AIDS has the obligation to do so
p.000002: condition to the patient but cannot in any case disclose this information. However the statistical data
p.000002: must be transmitted to the Ministry responsible for health.
p.000002: The doctor’s language must respect human dignity and reflect the patient’s acceptance. he
p.000002: must be gender sensitive, precise and understandable.
p.000002: Anyone tested positive for HIV has the obligation to inform their partner (s), with the support of a
p.000002: advise if necessary.
p.000002: The partner (s), on the basis of free and informed consent, will be tested for HIV and, in
p.000002: if positive, will receive the necessary information, prevention advice, and appropriate care.
p.000002: The medical profession must ensure that the information and exchange elements have been clearly understood.
p.000003: 3
p.000003: Article 5: Everyone infected or affected by HIV has the right to confidentiality and respect for
p.000003: his private life. Restrictions can only be made in exceptional circumstances.
p.000003: Article 6: The doctor or any person holding, by profession, information on the status
p.000003: patient's serology, cannot disclose it to other people without the patient's prior notice, except in
p.000003: the following cases:
p.000003: - cases of extreme necessity;
p.000003: - patient unable to consent;
p.000003: - HIV-positive person whose behavior is likely to endanger the health of others;
p.000003: - minors and incapable persons.
p.000003: Article 7: The doctor is required, in criminal matters and at the request of the judge, to make available to the
p.000003: jurisdiction, the results of the analysis performed on a patient.
p.000003: TITLE III
p.000003: THE IMPACT OF AIDS ON THE INDIVIDUAL, SOCIETY AND THE WORLD
p.000003: Article 8: Anyone suffering from AIDS or carrying HIV has the right to declare it to the social services
p.000003: sanitary facilities.
p.000003: In the event of express declaration of the disease to the aforementioned structures, people suffering from AIDS or carrying the
p.000003: HIV receive special assistance.
p.000003: This declaration must be duly verified by a doctor.
p.000003: Minor children of people who died from AIDS receive medical assistance
p.000003: and psychosocial assistance from the community, the State and its decentralized structures, or
p.000003: decentralized.
p.000003: To this end, a special fund for struggle and assistance in matters of
p.000003: AIDS.
p.000003: A decree issued by the Council of Ministers will fix the procedures for its creation and
p.000003: Operating.
p.000003: Article 9: People suffering from AIDS or carrying HIV receive all medical care adapted to the disease
p.000003: in accordance with article 18 of law 2003-04 of 03 March 2003 relating to sexual health and reproduction.
p.000003: Article 10: Anyone who has reached the required legal age, and who decides to marry, does so with their free and
p.000003: full consent. During the premarital examination, HIV testing should be offered to future spouses.
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p.000004: TITLE IV:
p.000004: MEDICAL ETHICS
p.000004: Article 11: The health worker who has agreed to provide care for a person living with HIV / AIDS
p.000004: undertakes to:
p.000004: - provide personally or with the help of qualified third parties all medical care in their power and
p.000004: necessary in the circumstances;
p.000004: - always act with correction, empathy and with kindness towards the patient.
p.000004: Article 12: The health worker called emergency to a minor or an incapable adult
p.000004: living with HIV / AIDS, when it is not possible to obtain timely consent from the
p.000004: legal representative, has the obligation to give the necessary care.
p.000004: Article 13: The State takes all the measures to make compulsory the medical follow-up of people to
p.000004: the high HIV transmission potential of sex workers, homosexuals,
p.000004: intravenous drug users and encourage voluntary HIV testing.
p.000004: TITLE V:
p.000004: AIDS IN THE MIDDLE OF WORK
p.000004: Article 14: The employer in the public, semi-public or private sector cannot require a candidate to be hired
p.000004: or the HIV testing test / recruitment competition.
p.000004: Article 15: Refusal to select a candidate for a recruitment test / competition or to hire a
p.000004: jobseekers on the grounds that they have HIV is a crime.
p.000004: Article 16: The dismissal of a worker on the grounds that he is carrying HIV is abusive.
p.000004: Article 17: The State and its decentralized structures as well as private or semi-public structures must
p.000004: encourage, through measures, donations and subsidies, families and reception centers to receive
p.000004: orphans and children vulnerable to AIDS.
p.000004: Article 18: Any attitude or regulatory provision is prohibited in the workplace
p.000004: likely to discriminate against or stigmatize a worker
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p.000005: made of his HIV status, such as refusal of promotion, refusal of opportunities for
p.000005: internships or other types of training, access to social protection benefits.
p.000005: Article 19: When an employee infected with HIV cannot continue to exercise their functions for
p.000005: cause of health, the employer is obliged to establish an arrangement allowing the worker to continue his
p.000005: work as long as possible in accordance with the regulations in force.
p.000005: Article 20: All employers in the public, private or semi-public sector are required to define and implement
p.000005: implement a STI / HIV / AIDS prevention policy and care for PLWHA.
p.000005: Article 21: Any health worker infected with HIV in the exercise of their functions
p.000005: benefits from medical and social care.
p.000005: TITLE VI:
p.000005: AIDS AND HEALTH INSURANCE
p.000005: Article 22: It is prohibited for any insurance company to condition the subscription to a policy
p.000005: health insurance to a pre-test for HIV.
p.000005: TITLE VII:
p.000005: PENAL PROVISIONS
p.000005: Article 23: The violation by any health worker of the ethical rules set out in title IV of this
p.000005: law, will be punished in accordance with the provisions of the penal code.
p.000005: In the event of recurrence, the suspension for at least five (05) years of exercising his profession will be pronounced against the
p.000005: guilty.
p.000005: Anyone who contravenes the prohibition to practice his profession, imposed under the previous paragraph will be punished with a
p.000005: imprisonment from one (01) year to three
p.000005: (03) years and a fine of two hundred thousand (200,000) to one million (1,000,000) CFA francs or one of these two
p.000005: penalties only.
p.000005: Article 24: Any person holding by profession secrets related to HIV / AIDS of a patient and who
p.000005: guilty of disclosure falls under the provisions of the criminal provisions on the
p.000005: disclosure of professional secrecy.
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p.000006: This penalty may be increased when this disclosure has resulted in:
p.000006: - the divorce ;
p.000006: - loss of employment and / or material goods;
p.000006: - suicide.
p.000006: Article 25: Any health worker who does not comply with the provisions of article 12 of this law
p.000006: will be liable to a sentence of three (03) months to one (01) to three (03 years imprisonment and a fine of two hundred
p.000006: one thousand (200,000) francs to five hundred thousand (500,000) CFA francs or one of these two penalties only.
p.000006: The ban on exercising for a period not exceeding six (06) to twelve (12) months may be pronounced against
p.000006: the guilty.
p.000006: In the event of an offense committed in a social health structure or private biological analysis, the
p.000006: suspension or final withdrawal of the establishment's approval may be pronounced for a
p.000006: period not exceeding twelve
p.000006: (12 months.
p.000006: Article 26: The violation of the provisions of articles 14, 15 and 16 of this law is punished
p.000006: to a fine of two hundred thousand (200,000) francs to one million (1,000,000) CFA francs, without prejudice to
p.000006: damages which may be claimed from it.
p.000006: In the event of a repeat offense, the penalties are doubled.
p.000006: Article 27: Anyone knowing that he is infected with the AIDS virus, and who knowingly maintains relationships
p.000006: unprotected sex with a partner who is not aware of their HIV status, even if they or
p.000006: this one is HIV positive, will be punished with criminal imprisonment from five (05) to ten
p.000006: (10) years and a fine of one million (1,000,000) francs to five million (5,000,000) CFA francs.
p.000006: Article 28: Laboratories or similar institutions are prohibited from accepting or storing blood donation,
p.000006: tissue or organs without a blood, tissue or organ sample tested negative for HIV.
p.000006: Article 29: Whoever administered voluntarily, in any way whatsoever, blood
p.000006: infected with HIV to a person, will be punished with life imprisonment.
p.000006: If the act was committed through negligence, recklessness, clumsiness or non-compliance with the regulations by
p.000006: any person, the culprit will be punished by one (01) year to five (05) years of imprisonment.
p.000006: Article 30: Anyone knowing that he is infected with the AIDS virus who, using violence, coercion or surprise,
p.000006: not have sex
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p.000007: protected of any kind whatsoever with a person, will be punished with time imprisonment for five
p.000007: (05) at twenty (20) years and a fine of three million (3,000,000) francs to ten million (10,000,000) francs
p.000007: CFA.
p.000007: If the act was committed under threat by one or more persons, by a legitimate, natural or adoptive ascendant of
p.000007: the victim or by a person who has abused the authority conferred on him by his functions, over a vulnerable person,
p.000007: an incapacitated person or a minor, the penalty will be life imprisonment.
p.000007: Article 31: The fact of practicing or having practiced on a person infected with HIV, a
p.000007: biomedical research without having obtained the informed and express consent of the person concerned,
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Health / Mentally Incapacitated
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p.000001: subtypes:
p.000001: AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. It is the final stage of the disease characterized by the appearance of
p.000001: opportunistic diseases and increased viral load;
p.000001: PLWHIV: Person living with HIV;
p.000001: People affected by HIV: Anyone with a direct parent: father, mother, children or
p.000001: spouse, siblings died from HIV or has HIV;
p.000001: STI: sexually transmitted infections which are the main entry points for HIV in
p.000001: the organization;
p.000001: ARV: Antiretrovirals which are drugs which act on different phases of replication of the virus;
p.000001: 1
p.000001: Socio-sanitary structures: Health centers, counseling and listening centers, care centers
p.000001: public, private, associative, faith-based or for-profit psychosocial work;
p.000001: Management of PLWHA: offer of medical services (consultations, care, treatment with ARVs,
p.000001: minimum package of psychosocial and nutritional biological examinations;
p.000001: Special assistance: medical, psychosocial, and / or nutritional services offered free of charge to
p.000001: Very poor PLHIV;
p.000001: Incapable: subjects with mental retardation (senile or pathological dementia, etc.) and incapacity
p.000001: physical (bedridden patients who necessarily need assistance to meet their basic needs);
p.000001: Social health service providers: person, community or public, semi-public or private structure that
p.000001: offers socio-health services;
p.000001: People at high risk: sex workers posted or clandestine who have sex
p.000001: against remuneration;
p.000001: Vulnerable people: children, women and all other incapacitated people;
p.000001: Approved persons: natural or legal persons legally and legally authorized to issue
p.000001: a medical certificate or any other administrative document attesting to the state of health of a PLWHA;
p.000001: Employer: Any person or organization employing workers under an employment contract
p.000001: written or oral which establishes the rights and duties of the parties, in accordance with law and practice
p.000001: national. Can be employers, Government, public authorities, public or private companies and
p.000001: the details ;
p.000001: Accommodation: Adaptation of the job or the working environment which is reasonably achievable and which allows
p.000001: PLHIV to have access to employment, to work or to gain advancement.
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p.000002: must be transmitted to the Ministry responsible for health.
p.000002: The doctor’s language must respect human dignity and reflect the patient’s acceptance. he
p.000002: must be gender sensitive, precise and understandable.
p.000002: Anyone tested positive for HIV has the obligation to inform their partner (s), with the support of a
p.000002: advise if necessary.
p.000002: The partner (s), on the basis of free and informed consent, will be tested for HIV and, in
p.000002: if positive, will receive the necessary information, prevention advice, and appropriate care.
p.000002: The medical profession must ensure that the information and exchange elements have been clearly understood.
p.000003: 3
p.000003: Article 5: Everyone infected or affected by HIV has the right to confidentiality and respect for
p.000003: his private life. Restrictions can only be made in exceptional circumstances.
p.000003: Article 6: The doctor or any person holding, by profession, information on the status
p.000003: patient's serology, cannot disclose it to other people without the patient's prior notice, except in
p.000003: the following cases:
p.000003: - cases of extreme necessity;
p.000003: - patient unable to consent;
p.000003: - HIV-positive person whose behavior is likely to endanger the health of others;
p.000003: - minors and incapable persons.
p.000003: Article 7: The doctor is required, in criminal matters and at the request of the judge, to make available to the
p.000003: jurisdiction, the results of the analysis performed on a patient.
p.000003: TITLE III
p.000003: THE IMPACT OF AIDS ON THE INDIVIDUAL, SOCIETY AND THE WORLD
p.000003: Article 8: Anyone suffering from AIDS or carrying HIV has the right to declare it to the social services
p.000003: sanitary facilities.
p.000003: In the event of express declaration of the disease to the aforementioned structures, people suffering from AIDS or carrying the
p.000003: HIV receive special assistance.
p.000003: This declaration must be duly verified by a doctor.
p.000003: Minor children of people who died from AIDS receive medical assistance
p.000003: and psychosocial assistance from the community, the State and its decentralized structures, or
p.000003: decentralized.
p.000003: To this end, a special fund for struggle and assistance in matters of
p.000003: AIDS.
p.000003: A decree issued by the Council of Ministers will fix the procedures for its creation and
p.000003: Operating.
p.000003: Article 9: People suffering from AIDS or carrying HIV receive all medical care adapted to the disease
p.000003: in accordance with article 18 of law 2003-04 of 03 March 2003 relating to sexual health and reproduction.
p.000003: Article 10: Anyone who has reached the required legal age, and who decides to marry, does so with their free and
p.000003: full consent. During the premarital examination, HIV testing should be offered to future spouses.
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p.000004: TITLE IV:
p.000004: MEDICAL ETHICS
p.000004: Article 11: The health worker who has agreed to provide care for a person living with HIV / AIDS
p.000004: undertakes to:
p.000004: - provide personally or with the help of qualified third parties all medical care in their power and
p.000004: necessary in the circumstances;
p.000004: - always act with correction, empathy and with kindness towards the patient.
p.000004: Article 12: The health worker called emergency to a minor or an incapable adult
p.000004: living with HIV / AIDS, when it is not possible to obtain timely consent from the
p.000004: legal representative, has the obligation to give the necessary care.
p.000004: Article 13: The State takes all the measures to make compulsory the medical follow-up of people to
p.000004: the high HIV transmission potential of sex workers, homosexuals,
p.000004: intravenous drug users and encourage voluntary HIV testing.
p.000004: TITLE V:
p.000004: AIDS IN THE MIDDLE OF WORK
p.000004: Article 14: The employer in the public, semi-public or private sector cannot require a candidate to be hired
p.000004: or the HIV testing test / recruitment competition.
p.000004: Article 15: Refusal to select a candidate for a recruitment test / competition or to hire a
p.000004: jobseekers on the grounds that they have HIV is a crime.
p.000004: Article 16: The dismissal of a worker on the grounds that he is carrying HIV is abusive.
p.000004: Article 17: The State and its decentralized structures as well as private or semi-public structures must
p.000004: encourage, through measures, donations and subsidies, families and reception centers to receive
p.000004: orphans and children vulnerable to AIDS.
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Health / Motherhood/Family
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p.000001: HIV / AIDS counseling: Communication technique which consists in informing the patient about HIV / AIDS, how to
p.000001: contamination, means of screening, treatment and prevention as well as the consequences on partners
p.000001: before and after the test.
p.000001: Gender: It is the recognition of the difference between man and woman without implying a difference in treatment.
p.000002: 2
p.000002: TITLE II
p.000002: THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION AND PROCESSING
p.000002: Article 2: Anyone with a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) or living with the
p.000002: HIV, must enjoy without discrimination, civil, political and social rights (housing, education, employment, health,
p.000002: social protection etc.)
p.000002: She has the right to benefit from special assistance, basic care, treatment and a guarantee
p.000002: confidentiality in its relations with the socio-health professional.
p.000002: People with HIV or AIDS who report it receive assistance
p.000002: special advice, psychosocial, nutritional, medical, material support; they receive
p.000002: medical care, in accordance with the standards and procedures in force.
p.000002: Special assistance in counseling, psychosocial, nutritional, medical and material support must
p.000002: be provided by the family, the State and its decentralized and decentralized structures, civil society,
p.000002: communities and anyone in a position to provide such assistance.
p.000002: Article 3: All HIV testing must be done with the free and informed consent of the person concerned and
p.000002: accompanied by pre and post test HIV / AIDS counseling. For minors or incapacitated persons, the
p.000002: consent of the legal representative may be required.
p.000002: Article 4: The doctor who has found that a person has HIV or has AIDS has the obligation to do so
p.000002: condition to the patient but cannot in any case disclose this information. However the statistical data
p.000002: must be transmitted to the Ministry responsible for health.
p.000002: The doctor’s language must respect human dignity and reflect the patient’s acceptance. he
p.000002: must be gender sensitive, precise and understandable.
p.000002: Anyone tested positive for HIV has the obligation to inform their partner (s), with the support of a
p.000002: advise if necessary.
p.000002: The partner (s), on the basis of free and informed consent, will be tested for HIV and, in
p.000002: if positive, will receive the necessary information, prevention advice, and appropriate care.
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p.000007: Article 31: The fact of practicing or having practiced on a person infected with HIV, a
p.000007: biomedical research without having obtained the informed and express consent of the person concerned,
p.000007: of holders of parental authority or of the tutor is punished by two (02) years to five (05) years of imprisonment and
p.000007: from a fine of five million (5,000,000) francs to twenty million (20,000,000) francs
p.000007: CFA.
p.000007: The same penalties apply when biomedical research is carried out when consent has been given.
p.000007: been removed.
p.000007: Article 32: Anyone who has exhibited or caused to be exhibited, neglected or caused to be abandoned, in a solitary place, a
p.000007: a child or an adult incapacitated suffering from AIDS, will be, for this sole fact, sentenced to imprisonment for one (01) year at
p.000007: three (03) years and a fine of fifty thousand (50,000) francs to two hundred thousand (200,000) CFA francs,
p.000007: or only one of these two sentences.
p.000007: Article 33: Will be punished by imprisonment from six (06) months to two (02) years and a fine of one hundred thousand
p.000007: (100,000) francs to one million (1,000,000) francs or one of these two penalties only:
p.000007: 1- The father or mother who gives up on the grounds of HIV seropositivity, during
p.000007: more than two (02) months the family residence, thus evading, in whole or in part from its obligations
p.000007: moral or material;
p.000007: 2- The husband or the wife, who for reason of HIV seropositivity, voluntarily abandons his or her
p.000007: partner ;
p.000007: 3- The father or the mother or the tutor who voluntarily abandons his child, knowing that he is carrying HIV.
p.000007: Article 34: Anyone who has forged, falsified or altered medical certificates or other documents
p.000007: relating to HIV / AIDS issued by approved persons will be punished by imprisonment of five (05) years to twenty
p.000007: (20) years and a fine of three million (3,000,000) francs to ten million (10,000,000) CFA francs.
p.000007: The same penalties will be applied to persons who knowingly use these forged documents or
p.000007: falsified.
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p.000008: The attempt will be punished as the consummated offense.
p.000008: Article 35: Any violation of the provisions of articles 24 and 25 exposes the offender to the payment of a fine of
p.000008: five hundred thousand (500,000) francs to one million (1,000,000) CFA francs.
p.000008: In the event of a repeat offense, the fine will be doubled.
p.000008: TITLE VII:
p.000008: FINAL PROVISIONS
p.000008: Article 36: All previous provisions contrary to this law are hereby repealed.
p.000008: Article 37: This law will be executed as state law.
p.000008: Done in Cotonou, on April 05, 2006
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Health / sexually transmitted disases
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p.000001: REPUBLIC OF BENIN PRESIDENCY OF THE REPUBLIC
p.000001: LAW N ° 2005-31 OF APRIL 05, 2006
p.000001: Concerning prevention, care and control of HIV AIDS in the Republic of Benin.
p.000001: The NATIONAL ASSEMBLY deliberated and adopted in its session of Thursday August 18, 2005 then in its session of January 30, 2006
p.000001: following Decision DCC 05-141 of November 21, 2005 of the Constitutional Court, for compliance with
p.000001: the Constitution,
p.000001: Following the Decision of the Constitutional Court DCC 06-041 of April 04, 2006 for conformity with the Constitution,
p.000001: THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC promulgates the following law:
p.000001: PRELIMINARY TITLE
p.000001: GENERAL PROVISIONS
p.000001: Article 1: Definitions of terms and concepts:
p.000001: HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus responsible for the infection. There are two serotypes and several
p.000001: subtypes:
p.000001: AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. It is the final stage of the disease characterized by the appearance of
p.000001: opportunistic diseases and increased viral load;
p.000001: PLWHIV: Person living with HIV;
p.000001: People affected by HIV: Anyone with a direct parent: father, mother, children or
p.000001: spouse, siblings died from HIV or has HIV;
p.000001: STI: sexually transmitted infections which are the main entry points for HIV in
p.000001: the organization;
p.000001: ARV: Antiretrovirals which are drugs which act on different phases of replication of the virus;
p.000001: 1
p.000001: Socio-sanitary structures: Health centers, counseling and listening centers, care centers
p.000001: public, private, associative, faith-based or for-profit psychosocial work;
p.000001: Management of PLWHA: offer of medical services (consultations, care, treatment with ARVs,
p.000001: minimum package of psychosocial and nutritional biological examinations;
p.000001: Special assistance: medical, psychosocial, and / or nutritional services offered free of charge to
p.000001: Very poor PLHIV;
p.000001: Incapable: subjects with mental retardation (senile or pathological dementia, etc.) and incapacity
p.000001: physical (bedridden patients who necessarily need assistance to meet their basic needs);
p.000001: Social health service providers: person, community or public, semi-public or private structure that
p.000001: offers socio-health services;
p.000001: People at high risk: sex workers posted or clandestine who have sex
p.000001: against remuneration;
p.000001: Vulnerable people: children, women and all other incapacitated people;
p.000001: Approved persons: natural or legal persons legally and legally authorized to issue
p.000001: a medical certificate or any other administrative document attesting to the state of health of a PLWHA;
p.000001: Employer: Any person or organization employing workers under an employment contract
p.000001: written or oral which establishes the rights and duties of the parties, in accordance with law and practice
p.000001: national. Can be employers, Government, public authorities, public or private companies and
p.000001: the details ;
p.000001: Accommodation: Adaptation of the job or the working environment which is reasonably achievable and which allows
p.000001: PLHIV to have access to employment, to work or to gain advancement.
p.000001: HIV / AIDS counseling: Communication technique which consists in informing the patient about HIV / AIDS, how to
p.000001: contamination, means of screening, treatment and prevention as well as the consequences on partners
p.000001: before and after the test.
p.000001: Gender: It is the recognition of the difference between man and woman without implying a difference in treatment.
p.000002: 2
p.000002: TITLE II
p.000002: THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION AND PROCESSING
p.000002: Article 2: Anyone with a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) or living with the
p.000002: HIV, must enjoy without discrimination, civil, political and social rights (housing, education, employment, health,
p.000002: social protection etc.)
p.000002: She has the right to benefit from special assistance, basic care, treatment and a guarantee
p.000002: confidentiality in its relations with the socio-health professional.
p.000002: People with HIV or AIDS who report it receive assistance
p.000002: special advice, psychosocial, nutritional, medical, material support; they receive
p.000002: medical care, in accordance with the standards and procedures in force.
p.000002: Special assistance in counseling, psychosocial, nutritional, medical and material support must
p.000002: be provided by the family, the State and its decentralized and decentralized structures, civil society,
p.000002: communities and anyone in a position to provide such assistance.
p.000002: Article 3: All HIV testing must be done with the free and informed consent of the person concerned and
p.000002: accompanied by pre and post test HIV / AIDS counseling. For minors or incapacitated persons, the
p.000002: consent of the legal representative may be required.
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p.000001: REPUBLIC OF BENIN PRESIDENCY OF THE REPUBLIC
p.000001: LAW N ° 2005-31 OF APRIL 05, 2006
p.000001: Concerning prevention, care and control of HIV AIDS in the Republic of Benin.
p.000001: The NATIONAL ASSEMBLY deliberated and adopted in its session of Thursday August 18, 2005 then in its session of January 30, 2006
p.000001: following Decision DCC 05-141 of November 21, 2005 of the Constitutional Court, for compliance with
p.000001: the Constitution,
p.000001: Following the Decision of the Constitutional Court DCC 06-041 of April 04, 2006 for conformity with the Constitution,
p.000001: THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC promulgates the following law:
p.000001: PRELIMINARY TITLE
p.000001: GENERAL PROVISIONS
p.000001: Article 1: Definitions of terms and concepts:
p.000001: HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus responsible for the infection. There are two serotypes and several
p.000001: subtypes:
p.000001: AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. It is the final stage of the disease characterized by the appearance of
p.000001: opportunistic diseases and increased viral load;
p.000001: PLWHIV: Person living with HIV;
p.000001: People affected by HIV: Anyone with a direct parent: father, mother, children or
p.000001: spouse, siblings died from HIV or has HIV;
p.000001: STI: sexually transmitted infections which are the main entry points for HIV in
p.000001: the organization;
p.000001: ARV: Antiretrovirals which are drugs which act on different phases of replication of the virus;
p.000001: 1
p.000001: Socio-sanitary structures: Health centers, counseling and listening centers, care centers
p.000001: public, private, associative, faith-based or for-profit psychosocial work;
p.000001: Management of PLWHA: offer of medical services (consultations, care, treatment with ARVs,
p.000001: minimum package of psychosocial and nutritional biological examinations;
p.000001: Special assistance: medical, psychosocial, and / or nutritional services offered free of charge to
p.000001: Very poor PLHIV;
p.000001: Incapable: subjects with mental retardation (senile or pathological dementia, etc.) and incapacity
p.000001: physical (bedridden patients who necessarily need assistance to meet their basic needs);
p.000001: Social health service providers: person, community or public, semi-public or private structure that
p.000001: offers socio-health services;
p.000001: People at high risk: sex workers posted or clandestine who have sex
p.000001: against remuneration;
p.000001: Vulnerable people: children, women and all other incapacitated people;
p.000001: Approved persons: natural or legal persons legally and legally authorized to issue
p.000001: a medical certificate or any other administrative document attesting to the state of health of a PLWHA;
p.000001: Employer: Any person or organization employing workers under an employment contract
p.000001: written or oral which establishes the rights and duties of the parties, in accordance with law and practice
p.000001: national. Can be employers, Government, public authorities, public or private companies and
p.000001: the details ;
p.000001: Accommodation: Adaptation of the job or the working environment which is reasonably achievable and which allows
p.000001: PLHIV to have access to employment, to work or to gain advancement.
p.000001: HIV / AIDS counseling: Communication technique which consists in informing the patient about HIV / AIDS, how to
p.000001: contamination, means of screening, treatment and prevention as well as the consequences on partners
p.000001: before and after the test.
p.000001: Gender: It is the recognition of the difference between man and woman without implying a difference in treatment.
p.000002: 2
p.000002: TITLE II
p.000002: THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION AND PROCESSING
p.000002: Article 2: Anyone with a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) or living with the
p.000002: HIV, must enjoy without discrimination, civil, political and social rights (housing, education, employment, health,
p.000002: social protection etc.)
p.000002: She has the right to benefit from special assistance, basic care, treatment and a guarantee
p.000002: confidentiality in its relations with the socio-health professional.
p.000002: People with HIV or AIDS who report it receive assistance
p.000002: special advice, psychosocial, nutritional, medical, material support; they receive
p.000002: medical care, in accordance with the standards and procedures in force.
p.000002: Special assistance in counseling, psychosocial, nutritional, medical and material support must
p.000002: be provided by the family, the State and its decentralized and decentralized structures, civil society,
p.000002: communities and anyone in a position to provide such assistance.
p.000002: Article 3: All HIV testing must be done with the free and informed consent of the person concerned and
p.000002: accompanied by pre and post test HIV / AIDS counseling. For minors or incapacitated persons, the
p.000002: consent of the legal representative may be required.
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p.000004: Article 15: Refusal to select a candidate for a recruitment test / competition or to hire a
p.000004: jobseekers on the grounds that they have HIV is a crime.
p.000004: Article 16: The dismissal of a worker on the grounds that he is carrying HIV is abusive.
p.000004: Article 17: The State and its decentralized structures as well as private or semi-public structures must
p.000004: encourage, through measures, donations and subsidies, families and reception centers to receive
p.000004: orphans and children vulnerable to AIDS.
p.000004: Article 18: Any attitude or regulatory provision is prohibited in the workplace
p.000004: likely to discriminate against or stigmatize a worker
p.000005: 5
p.000005: made of his HIV status, such as refusal of promotion, refusal of opportunities for
p.000005: internships or other types of training, access to social protection benefits.
p.000005: Article 19: When an employee infected with HIV cannot continue to exercise their functions for
p.000005: cause of health, the employer is obliged to establish an arrangement allowing the worker to continue his
p.000005: work as long as possible in accordance with the regulations in force.
p.000005: Article 20: All employers in the public, private or semi-public sector are required to define and implement
p.000005: implement a STI / HIV / AIDS prevention policy and care for PLWHA.
p.000005: Article 21: Any health worker infected with HIV in the exercise of their functions
p.000005: benefits from medical and social care.
p.000005: TITLE VI:
p.000005: AIDS AND HEALTH INSURANCE
p.000005: Article 22: It is prohibited for any insurance company to condition the subscription to a policy
p.000005: health insurance to a pre-test for HIV.
p.000005: TITLE VII:
p.000005: PENAL PROVISIONS
p.000005: Article 23: The violation by any health worker of the ethical rules set out in title IV of this
p.000005: law, will be punished in accordance with the provisions of the penal code.
p.000005: In the event of recurrence, the suspension for at least five (05) years of exercising his profession will be pronounced against the
p.000005: guilty.
p.000005: Anyone who contravenes the prohibition to practice his profession, imposed under the previous paragraph will be punished with a
p.000005: imprisonment from one (01) year to three
p.000005: (03) years and a fine of two hundred thousand (200,000) to one million (1,000,000) CFA francs or one of these two
p.000005: penalties only.
p.000005: Article 24: Any person holding by profession secrets related to HIV / AIDS of a patient and who
p.000005: guilty of disclosure falls under the provisions of the criminal provisions on the
p.000005: disclosure of professional secrecy.
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p.000006: This penalty may be increased when this disclosure has resulted in:
p.000006: - the divorce ;
p.000006: - loss of employment and / or material goods;
p.000006: - suicide.
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Social / Access to Social Goods
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p.000001: Special assistance: medical, psychosocial, and / or nutritional services offered free of charge to
p.000001: Very poor PLHIV;
p.000001: Incapable: subjects with mental retardation (senile or pathological dementia, etc.) and incapacity
p.000001: physical (bedridden patients who necessarily need assistance to meet their basic needs);
p.000001: Social health service providers: person, community or public, semi-public or private structure that
p.000001: offers socio-health services;
p.000001: People at high risk: sex workers posted or clandestine who have sex
p.000001: against remuneration;
p.000001: Vulnerable people: children, women and all other incapacitated people;
p.000001: Approved persons: natural or legal persons legally and legally authorized to issue
p.000001: a medical certificate or any other administrative document attesting to the state of health of a PLWHA;
p.000001: Employer: Any person or organization employing workers under an employment contract
p.000001: written or oral which establishes the rights and duties of the parties, in accordance with law and practice
p.000001: national. Can be employers, Government, public authorities, public or private companies and
p.000001: the details ;
p.000001: Accommodation: Adaptation of the job or the working environment which is reasonably achievable and which allows
p.000001: PLHIV to have access to employment, to work or to gain advancement.
p.000001: HIV / AIDS counseling: Communication technique which consists in informing the patient about HIV / AIDS, how to
p.000001: contamination, means of screening, treatment and prevention as well as the consequences on partners
p.000001: before and after the test.
p.000001: Gender: It is the recognition of the difference between man and woman without implying a difference in treatment.
p.000002: 2
p.000002: TITLE II
p.000002: THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION AND PROCESSING
p.000002: Article 2: Anyone with a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) or living with the
p.000002: HIV, must enjoy without discrimination, civil, political and social rights (housing, education, employment, health,
p.000002: social protection etc.)
p.000002: She has the right to benefit from special assistance, basic care, treatment and a guarantee
p.000002: confidentiality in its relations with the socio-health professional.
p.000002: People with HIV or AIDS who report it receive assistance
p.000002: special advice, psychosocial, nutritional, medical, material support; they receive
p.000002: medical care, in accordance with the standards and procedures in force.
p.000002: Special assistance in counseling, psychosocial, nutritional, medical and material support must
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p.000004: the high HIV transmission potential of sex workers, homosexuals,
p.000004: intravenous drug users and encourage voluntary HIV testing.
p.000004: TITLE V:
p.000004: AIDS IN THE MIDDLE OF WORK
p.000004: Article 14: The employer in the public, semi-public or private sector cannot require a candidate to be hired
p.000004: or the HIV testing test / recruitment competition.
p.000004: Article 15: Refusal to select a candidate for a recruitment test / competition or to hire a
p.000004: jobseekers on the grounds that they have HIV is a crime.
p.000004: Article 16: The dismissal of a worker on the grounds that he is carrying HIV is abusive.
p.000004: Article 17: The State and its decentralized structures as well as private or semi-public structures must
p.000004: encourage, through measures, donations and subsidies, families and reception centers to receive
p.000004: orphans and children vulnerable to AIDS.
p.000004: Article 18: Any attitude or regulatory provision is prohibited in the workplace
p.000004: likely to discriminate against or stigmatize a worker
p.000005: 5
p.000005: made of his HIV status, such as refusal of promotion, refusal of opportunities for
p.000005: internships or other types of training, access to social protection benefits.
p.000005: Article 19: When an employee infected with HIV cannot continue to exercise their functions for
p.000005: cause of health, the employer is obliged to establish an arrangement allowing the worker to continue his
p.000005: work as long as possible in accordance with the regulations in force.
p.000005: Article 20: All employers in the public, private or semi-public sector are required to define and implement
p.000005: implement a STI / HIV / AIDS prevention policy and care for PLWHA.
p.000005: Article 21: Any health worker infected with HIV in the exercise of their functions
p.000005: benefits from medical and social care.
p.000005: TITLE VI:
p.000005: AIDS AND HEALTH INSURANCE
p.000005: Article 22: It is prohibited for any insurance company to condition the subscription to a policy
p.000005: health insurance to a pre-test for HIV.
p.000005: TITLE VII:
p.000005: PENAL PROVISIONS
p.000005: Article 23: The violation by any health worker of the ethical rules set out in title IV of this
p.000005: law, will be punished in accordance with the provisions of the penal code.
p.000005: In the event of recurrence, the suspension for at least five (05) years of exercising his profession will be pronounced against the
p.000005: guilty.
p.000005: Anyone who contravenes the prohibition to practice his profession, imposed under the previous paragraph will be punished with a
p.000005: imprisonment from one (01) year to three
p.000005: (03) years and a fine of two hundred thousand (200,000) to one million (1,000,000) CFA francs or one of these two
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Social / Age
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p.000003: - minors and incapable persons.
p.000003: Article 7: The doctor is required, in criminal matters and at the request of the judge, to make available to the
p.000003: jurisdiction, the results of the analysis performed on a patient.
p.000003: TITLE III
p.000003: THE IMPACT OF AIDS ON THE INDIVIDUAL, SOCIETY AND THE WORLD
p.000003: Article 8: Anyone suffering from AIDS or carrying HIV has the right to declare it to the social services
p.000003: sanitary facilities.
p.000003: In the event of express declaration of the disease to the aforementioned structures, people suffering from AIDS or carrying the
p.000003: HIV receive special assistance.
p.000003: This declaration must be duly verified by a doctor.
p.000003: Minor children of people who died from AIDS receive medical assistance
p.000003: and psychosocial assistance from the community, the State and its decentralized structures, or
p.000003: decentralized.
p.000003: To this end, a special fund for struggle and assistance in matters of
p.000003: AIDS.
p.000003: A decree issued by the Council of Ministers will fix the procedures for its creation and
p.000003: Operating.
p.000003: Article 9: People suffering from AIDS or carrying HIV receive all medical care adapted to the disease
p.000003: in accordance with article 18 of law 2003-04 of 03 March 2003 relating to sexual health and reproduction.
p.000003: Article 10: Anyone who has reached the required legal age, and who decides to marry, does so with their free and
p.000003: full consent. During the premarital examination, HIV testing should be offered to future spouses.
p.000004: 4
p.000004: TITLE IV:
p.000004: MEDICAL ETHICS
p.000004: Article 11: The health worker who has agreed to provide care for a person living with HIV / AIDS
p.000004: undertakes to:
p.000004: - provide personally or with the help of qualified third parties all medical care in their power and
p.000004: necessary in the circumstances;
p.000004: - always act with correction, empathy and with kindness towards the patient.
p.000004: Article 12: The health worker called emergency to a minor or an incapable adult
p.000004: living with HIV / AIDS, when it is not possible to obtain timely consent from the
p.000004: legal representative, has the obligation to give the necessary care.
p.000004: Article 13: The State takes all the measures to make compulsory the medical follow-up of people to
p.000004: the high HIV transmission potential of sex workers, homosexuals,
p.000004: intravenous drug users and encourage voluntary HIV testing.
p.000004: TITLE V:
p.000004: AIDS IN THE MIDDLE OF WORK
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Social / Child
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p.000007: 7
p.000007: protected of any kind whatsoever with a person, will be punished with time imprisonment for five
p.000007: (05) at twenty (20) years and a fine of three million (3,000,000) francs to ten million (10,000,000) francs
p.000007: CFA.
p.000007: If the act was committed under threat by one or more persons, by a legitimate, natural or adoptive ascendant of
p.000007: the victim or by a person who has abused the authority conferred on him by his functions, over a vulnerable person,
p.000007: an incapacitated person or a minor, the penalty will be life imprisonment.
p.000007: Article 31: The fact of practicing or having practiced on a person infected with HIV, a
p.000007: biomedical research without having obtained the informed and express consent of the person concerned,
p.000007: of holders of parental authority or of the tutor is punished by two (02) years to five (05) years of imprisonment and
p.000007: from a fine of five million (5,000,000) francs to twenty million (20,000,000) francs
p.000007: CFA.
p.000007: The same penalties apply when biomedical research is carried out when consent has been given.
p.000007: been removed.
p.000007: Article 32: Anyone who has exhibited or caused to be exhibited, neglected or caused to be abandoned, in a solitary place, a
p.000007: a child or an adult incapacitated suffering from AIDS, will be, for this sole fact, sentenced to imprisonment for one (01) year at
p.000007: three (03) years and a fine of fifty thousand (50,000) francs to two hundred thousand (200,000) CFA francs,
p.000007: or only one of these two sentences.
p.000007: Article 33: Will be punished by imprisonment from six (06) months to two (02) years and a fine of one hundred thousand
p.000007: (100,000) francs to one million (1,000,000) francs or one of these two penalties only:
p.000007: 1- The father or mother who gives up on the grounds of HIV seropositivity, during
p.000007: more than two (02) months the family residence, thus evading, in whole or in part from its obligations
p.000007: moral or material;
p.000007: 2- The husband or the wife, who for reason of HIV seropositivity, voluntarily abandons his or her
p.000007: partner ;
p.000007: 3- The father or the mother or the tutor who voluntarily abandons his child, knowing that he is carrying HIV.
p.000007: Article 34: Anyone who has forged, falsified or altered medical certificates or other documents
p.000007: relating to HIV / AIDS issued by approved persons will be punished by imprisonment of five (05) years to twenty
p.000007: (20) years and a fine of three million (3,000,000) francs to ten million (10,000,000) CFA francs.
p.000007: The same penalties will be applied to persons who knowingly use these forged documents or
p.000007: falsified.
p.000008: 8
p.000008: The attempt will be punished as the consummated offense.
p.000008: Article 35: Any violation of the provisions of articles 24 and 25 exposes the offender to the payment of a fine of
p.000008: five hundred thousand (500,000) francs to one million (1,000,000) CFA francs.
p.000008: In the event of a repeat offense, the fine will be doubled.
p.000008: TITLE VII:
p.000008: FINAL PROVISIONS
p.000008: Article 36: All previous provisions contrary to this law are hereby repealed.
p.000008: Article 37: This law will be executed as state law.
p.000008: Done in Cotonou, on April 05, 2006
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p.000001: REPUBLIC OF BENIN PRESIDENCY OF THE REPUBLIC
p.000001: LAW N ° 2005-31 OF APRIL 05, 2006
p.000001: Concerning prevention, care and control of HIV AIDS in the Republic of Benin.
p.000001: The NATIONAL ASSEMBLY deliberated and adopted in its session of Thursday August 18, 2005 then in its session of January 30, 2006
p.000001: following Decision DCC 05-141 of November 21, 2005 of the Constitutional Court, for compliance with
p.000001: the Constitution,
p.000001: Following the Decision of the Constitutional Court DCC 06-041 of April 04, 2006 for conformity with the Constitution,
p.000001: THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC promulgates the following law:
p.000001: PRELIMINARY TITLE
p.000001: GENERAL PROVISIONS
p.000001: Article 1: Definitions of terms and concepts:
p.000001: HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus responsible for the infection. There are two serotypes and several
p.000001: subtypes:
p.000001: AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. It is the final stage of the disease characterized by the appearance of
p.000001: opportunistic diseases and increased viral load;
p.000001: PLWHIV: Person living with HIV;
p.000001: People affected by HIV: Anyone with a direct parent: father, mother, children or
p.000001: spouse, siblings died from HIV or has HIV;
p.000001: STI: sexually transmitted infections which are the main entry points for HIV in
p.000001: the organization;
p.000001: ARV: Antiretrovirals which are drugs which act on different phases of replication of the virus;
p.000001: 1
p.000001: Socio-sanitary structures: Health centers, counseling and listening centers, care centers
p.000001: public, private, associative, faith-based or for-profit psychosocial work;
p.000001: Management of PLWHA: offer of medical services (consultations, care, treatment with ARVs,
p.000001: minimum package of psychosocial and nutritional biological examinations;
p.000001: Special assistance: medical, psychosocial, and / or nutritional services offered free of charge to
p.000001: Very poor PLHIV;
p.000001: Incapable: subjects with mental retardation (senile or pathological dementia, etc.) and incapacity
p.000001: physical (bedridden patients who necessarily need assistance to meet their basic needs);
p.000001: Social health service providers: person, community or public, semi-public or private structure that
p.000001: offers socio-health services;
p.000001: People at high risk: sex workers posted or clandestine who have sex
p.000001: against remuneration;
p.000001: Vulnerable people: children, women and all other incapacitated people;
p.000001: Approved persons: natural or legal persons legally and legally authorized to issue
p.000001: a medical certificate or any other administrative document attesting to the state of health of a PLWHA;
p.000001: Employer: Any person or organization employing workers under an employment contract
p.000001: written or oral which establishes the rights and duties of the parties, in accordance with law and practice
p.000001: national. Can be employers, Government, public authorities, public or private companies and
p.000001: the details ;
p.000001: Accommodation: Adaptation of the job or the working environment which is reasonably achievable and which allows
p.000001: PLHIV to have access to employment, to work or to gain advancement.
p.000001: HIV / AIDS counseling: Communication technique which consists in informing the patient about HIV / AIDS, how to
p.000001: contamination, means of screening, treatment and prevention as well as the consequences on partners
p.000001: before and after the test.
p.000001: Gender: It is the recognition of the difference between man and woman without implying a difference in treatment.
p.000002: 2
p.000002: TITLE II
p.000002: THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION AND PROCESSING
p.000002: Article 2: Anyone with a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) or living with the
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p.000003: 3
p.000003: Article 5: Everyone infected or affected by HIV has the right to confidentiality and respect for
p.000003: his private life. Restrictions can only be made in exceptional circumstances.
p.000003: Article 6: The doctor or any person holding, by profession, information on the status
p.000003: patient's serology, cannot disclose it to other people without the patient's prior notice, except in
p.000003: the following cases:
p.000003: - cases of extreme necessity;
p.000003: - patient unable to consent;
p.000003: - HIV-positive person whose behavior is likely to endanger the health of others;
p.000003: - minors and incapable persons.
p.000003: Article 7: The doctor is required, in criminal matters and at the request of the judge, to make available to the
p.000003: jurisdiction, the results of the analysis performed on a patient.
p.000003: TITLE III
p.000003: THE IMPACT OF AIDS ON THE INDIVIDUAL, SOCIETY AND THE WORLD
p.000003: Article 8: Anyone suffering from AIDS or carrying HIV has the right to declare it to the social services
p.000003: sanitary facilities.
p.000003: In the event of express declaration of the disease to the aforementioned structures, people suffering from AIDS or carrying the
p.000003: HIV receive special assistance.
p.000003: This declaration must be duly verified by a doctor.
p.000003: Minor children of people who died from AIDS receive medical assistance
p.000003: and psychosocial assistance from the community, the State and its decentralized structures, or
p.000003: decentralized.
p.000003: To this end, a special fund for struggle and assistance in matters of
p.000003: AIDS.
p.000003: A decree issued by the Council of Ministers will fix the procedures for its creation and
p.000003: Operating.
p.000003: Article 9: People suffering from AIDS or carrying HIV receive all medical care adapted to the disease
p.000003: in accordance with article 18 of law 2003-04 of 03 March 2003 relating to sexual health and reproduction.
p.000003: Article 10: Anyone who has reached the required legal age, and who decides to marry, does so with their free and
p.000003: full consent. During the premarital examination, HIV testing should be offered to future spouses.
p.000004: 4
p.000004: TITLE IV:
p.000004: MEDICAL ETHICS
p.000004: Article 11: The health worker who has agreed to provide care for a person living with HIV / AIDS
p.000004: undertakes to:
p.000004: - provide personally or with the help of qualified third parties all medical care in their power and
p.000004: necessary in the circumstances;
p.000004: - always act with correction, empathy and with kindness towards the patient.
p.000004: Article 12: The health worker called emergency to a minor or an incapable adult
p.000004: living with HIV / AIDS, when it is not possible to obtain timely consent from the
p.000004: legal representative, has the obligation to give the necessary care.
p.000004: Article 13: The State takes all the measures to make compulsory the medical follow-up of people to
p.000004: the high HIV transmission potential of sex workers, homosexuals,
p.000004: intravenous drug users and encourage voluntary HIV testing.
p.000004: TITLE V:
p.000004: AIDS IN THE MIDDLE OF WORK
p.000004: Article 14: The employer in the public, semi-public or private sector cannot require a candidate to be hired
p.000004: or the HIV testing test / recruitment competition.
p.000004: Article 15: Refusal to select a candidate for a recruitment test / competition or to hire a
p.000004: jobseekers on the grounds that they have HIV is a crime.
p.000004: Article 16: The dismissal of a worker on the grounds that he is carrying HIV is abusive.
p.000004: Article 17: The State and its decentralized structures as well as private or semi-public structures must
p.000004: encourage, through measures, donations and subsidies, families and reception centers to receive
p.000004: orphans and children vulnerable to AIDS.
p.000004: Article 18: Any attitude or regulatory provision is prohibited in the workplace
p.000004: likely to discriminate against or stigmatize a worker
p.000005: 5
p.000005: made of his HIV status, such as refusal of promotion, refusal of opportunities for
p.000005: internships or other types of training, access to social protection benefits.
p.000005: Article 19: When an employee infected with HIV cannot continue to exercise their functions for
p.000005: cause of health, the employer is obliged to establish an arrangement allowing the worker to continue his
p.000005: work as long as possible in accordance with the regulations in force.
p.000005: Article 20: All employers in the public, private or semi-public sector are required to define and implement
p.000005: implement a STI / HIV / AIDS prevention policy and care for PLWHA.
p.000005: Article 21: Any health worker infected with HIV in the exercise of their functions
p.000005: benefits from medical and social care.
p.000005: TITLE VI:
p.000005: AIDS AND HEALTH INSURANCE
p.000005: Article 22: It is prohibited for any insurance company to condition the subscription to a policy
p.000005: health insurance to a pre-test for HIV.
p.000005: TITLE VII:
p.000005: PENAL PROVISIONS
p.000005: Article 23: The violation by any health worker of the ethical rules set out in title IV of this
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Social / Linguistic Proficiency
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p.000002: social protection etc.)
p.000002: She has the right to benefit from special assistance, basic care, treatment and a guarantee
p.000002: confidentiality in its relations with the socio-health professional.
p.000002: People with HIV or AIDS who report it receive assistance
p.000002: special advice, psychosocial, nutritional, medical, material support; they receive
p.000002: medical care, in accordance with the standards and procedures in force.
p.000002: Special assistance in counseling, psychosocial, nutritional, medical and material support must
p.000002: be provided by the family, the State and its decentralized and decentralized structures, civil society,
p.000002: communities and anyone in a position to provide such assistance.
p.000002: Article 3: All HIV testing must be done with the free and informed consent of the person concerned and
p.000002: accompanied by pre and post test HIV / AIDS counseling. For minors or incapacitated persons, the
p.000002: consent of the legal representative may be required.
p.000002: Article 4: The doctor who has found that a person has HIV or has AIDS has the obligation to do so
p.000002: condition to the patient but cannot in any case disclose this information. However the statistical data
p.000002: must be transmitted to the Ministry responsible for health.
p.000002: The doctor’s language must respect human dignity and reflect the patient’s acceptance. he
p.000002: must be gender sensitive, precise and understandable.
p.000002: Anyone tested positive for HIV has the obligation to inform their partner (s), with the support of a
p.000002: advise if necessary.
p.000002: The partner (s), on the basis of free and informed consent, will be tested for HIV and, in
p.000002: if positive, will receive the necessary information, prevention advice, and appropriate care.
p.000002: The medical profession must ensure that the information and exchange elements have been clearly understood.
p.000003: 3
p.000003: Article 5: Everyone infected or affected by HIV has the right to confidentiality and respect for
p.000003: his private life. Restrictions can only be made in exceptional circumstances.
p.000003: Article 6: The doctor or any person holding, by profession, information on the status
p.000003: patient's serology, cannot disclose it to other people without the patient's prior notice, except in
p.000003: the following cases:
p.000003: - cases of extreme necessity;
p.000003: - patient unable to consent;
p.000003: - HIV-positive person whose behavior is likely to endanger the health of others;
p.000003: - minors and incapable persons.
p.000003: Article 7: The doctor is required, in criminal matters and at the request of the judge, to make available to the
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Social / Occupation
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p.000001: minimum package of psychosocial and nutritional biological examinations;
p.000001: Special assistance: medical, psychosocial, and / or nutritional services offered free of charge to
p.000001: Very poor PLHIV;
p.000001: Incapable: subjects with mental retardation (senile or pathological dementia, etc.) and incapacity
p.000001: physical (bedridden patients who necessarily need assistance to meet their basic needs);
p.000001: Social health service providers: person, community or public, semi-public or private structure that
p.000001: offers socio-health services;
p.000001: People at high risk: sex workers posted or clandestine who have sex
p.000001: against remuneration;
p.000001: Vulnerable people: children, women and all other incapacitated people;
p.000001: Approved persons: natural or legal persons legally and legally authorized to issue
p.000001: a medical certificate or any other administrative document attesting to the state of health of a PLWHA;
p.000001: Employer: Any person or organization employing workers under an employment contract
p.000001: written or oral which establishes the rights and duties of the parties, in accordance with law and practice
p.000001: national. Can be employers, Government, public authorities, public or private companies and
p.000001: the details ;
p.000001: Accommodation: Adaptation of the job or the working environment which is reasonably achievable and which allows
p.000001: PLHIV to have access to employment, to work or to gain advancement.
p.000001: HIV / AIDS counseling: Communication technique which consists in informing the patient about HIV / AIDS, how to
p.000001: contamination, means of screening, treatment and prevention as well as the consequences on partners
p.000001: before and after the test.
p.000001: Gender: It is the recognition of the difference between man and woman without implying a difference in treatment.
p.000002: 2
p.000002: TITLE II
p.000002: THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION AND PROCESSING
p.000002: Article 2: Anyone with a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) or living with the
p.000002: HIV, must enjoy without discrimination, civil, political and social rights (housing, education, employment, health,
p.000002: social protection etc.)
p.000002: She has the right to benefit from special assistance, basic care, treatment and a guarantee
p.000002: confidentiality in its relations with the socio-health professional.
p.000002: People with HIV or AIDS who report it receive assistance
p.000002: special advice, psychosocial, nutritional, medical, material support; they receive
p.000002: medical care, in accordance with the standards and procedures in force.
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Social / Religion
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p.000001: the Constitution,
p.000001: Following the Decision of the Constitutional Court DCC 06-041 of April 04, 2006 for conformity with the Constitution,
p.000001: THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC promulgates the following law:
p.000001: PRELIMINARY TITLE
p.000001: GENERAL PROVISIONS
p.000001: Article 1: Definitions of terms and concepts:
p.000001: HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus responsible for the infection. There are two serotypes and several
p.000001: subtypes:
p.000001: AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. It is the final stage of the disease characterized by the appearance of
p.000001: opportunistic diseases and increased viral load;
p.000001: PLWHIV: Person living with HIV;
p.000001: People affected by HIV: Anyone with a direct parent: father, mother, children or
p.000001: spouse, siblings died from HIV or has HIV;
p.000001: STI: sexually transmitted infections which are the main entry points for HIV in
p.000001: the organization;
p.000001: ARV: Antiretrovirals which are drugs which act on different phases of replication of the virus;
p.000001: 1
p.000001: Socio-sanitary structures: Health centers, counseling and listening centers, care centers
p.000001: public, private, associative, faith-based or for-profit psychosocial work;
p.000001: Management of PLWHA: offer of medical services (consultations, care, treatment with ARVs,
p.000001: minimum package of psychosocial and nutritional biological examinations;
p.000001: Special assistance: medical, psychosocial, and / or nutritional services offered free of charge to
p.000001: Very poor PLHIV;
p.000001: Incapable: subjects with mental retardation (senile or pathological dementia, etc.) and incapacity
p.000001: physical (bedridden patients who necessarily need assistance to meet their basic needs);
p.000001: Social health service providers: person, community or public, semi-public or private structure that
p.000001: offers socio-health services;
p.000001: People at high risk: sex workers posted or clandestine who have sex
p.000001: against remuneration;
p.000001: Vulnerable people: children, women and all other incapacitated people;
p.000001: Approved persons: natural or legal persons legally and legally authorized to issue
p.000001: a medical certificate or any other administrative document attesting to the state of health of a PLWHA;
p.000001: Employer: Any person or organization employing workers under an employment contract
p.000001: written or oral which establishes the rights and duties of the parties, in accordance with law and practice
p.000001: national. Can be employers, Government, public authorities, public or private companies and
p.000001: the details ;
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Social / Threat of Stigma
Searching for indicator threat:
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p.000006: Article 27: Anyone knowing that he is infected with the AIDS virus, and who knowingly maintains relationships
p.000006: unprotected sex with a partner who is not aware of their HIV status, even if they or
p.000006: this one is HIV positive, will be punished with criminal imprisonment from five (05) to ten
p.000006: (10) years and a fine of one million (1,000,000) francs to five million (5,000,000) CFA francs.
p.000006: Article 28: Laboratories or similar institutions are prohibited from accepting or storing blood donation,
p.000006: tissue or organs without a blood, tissue or organ sample tested negative for HIV.
p.000006: Article 29: Whoever administered voluntarily, in any way whatsoever, blood
p.000006: infected with HIV to a person, will be punished with life imprisonment.
p.000006: If the act was committed through negligence, recklessness, clumsiness or non-compliance with the regulations by
p.000006: any person, the culprit will be punished by one (01) year to five (05) years of imprisonment.
p.000006: Article 30: Anyone knowing that he is infected with the AIDS virus who, using violence, coercion or surprise,
p.000006: not have sex
p.000007: 7
p.000007: protected of any kind whatsoever with a person, will be punished with time imprisonment for five
p.000007: (05) at twenty (20) years and a fine of three million (3,000,000) francs to ten million (10,000,000) francs
p.000007: CFA.
p.000007: If the act was committed under threat by one or more persons, by a legitimate, natural or adoptive ascendant of
p.000007: the victim or by a person who has abused the authority conferred on him by his functions, over a vulnerable person,
p.000007: an incapacitated person or a minor, the penalty will be life imprisonment.
p.000007: Article 31: The fact of practicing or having practiced on a person infected with HIV, a
p.000007: biomedical research without having obtained the informed and express consent of the person concerned,
p.000007: of holders of parental authority or of the tutor is punished by two (02) years to five (05) years of imprisonment and
p.000007: from a fine of five million (5,000,000) francs to twenty million (20,000,000) francs
p.000007: CFA.
p.000007: The same penalties apply when biomedical research is carried out when consent has been given.
p.000007: been removed.
p.000007: Article 32: Anyone who has exhibited or caused to be exhibited, neglected or caused to be abandoned, in a solitary place, a
p.000007: a child or an adult incapacitated suffering from AIDS, will be, for this sole fact, sentenced to imprisonment for one (01) year at
p.000007: three (03) years and a fine of fifty thousand (50,000) francs to two hundred thousand (200,000) CFA francs,
p.000007: or only one of these two sentences.
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Social / Threat of Violence
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p.000006: period not exceeding twelve
p.000006: (12 months.
p.000006: Article 26: The violation of the provisions of articles 14, 15 and 16 of this law is punished
p.000006: to a fine of two hundred thousand (200,000) francs to one million (1,000,000) CFA francs, without prejudice to
p.000006: damages which may be claimed from it.
p.000006: In the event of a repeat offense, the penalties are doubled.
p.000006: Article 27: Anyone knowing that he is infected with the AIDS virus, and who knowingly maintains relationships
p.000006: unprotected sex with a partner who is not aware of their HIV status, even if they or
p.000006: this one is HIV positive, will be punished with criminal imprisonment from five (05) to ten
p.000006: (10) years and a fine of one million (1,000,000) francs to five million (5,000,000) CFA francs.
p.000006: Article 28: Laboratories or similar institutions are prohibited from accepting or storing blood donation,
p.000006: tissue or organs without a blood, tissue or organ sample tested negative for HIV.
p.000006: Article 29: Whoever administered voluntarily, in any way whatsoever, blood
p.000006: infected with HIV to a person, will be punished with life imprisonment.
p.000006: If the act was committed through negligence, recklessness, clumsiness or non-compliance with the regulations by
p.000006: any person, the culprit will be punished by one (01) year to five (05) years of imprisonment.
p.000006: Article 30: Anyone knowing that he is infected with the AIDS virus who, using violence, coercion or surprise,
p.000006: not have sex
p.000007: 7
p.000007: protected of any kind whatsoever with a person, will be punished with time imprisonment for five
p.000007: (05) at twenty (20) years and a fine of three million (3,000,000) francs to ten million (10,000,000) francs
p.000007: CFA.
p.000007: If the act was committed under threat by one or more persons, by a legitimate, natural or adoptive ascendant of
p.000007: the victim or by a person who has abused the authority conferred on him by his functions, over a vulnerable person,
p.000007: an incapacitated person or a minor, the penalty will be life imprisonment.
p.000007: Article 31: The fact of practicing or having practiced on a person infected with HIV, a
p.000007: biomedical research without having obtained the informed and express consent of the person concerned,
p.000007: of holders of parental authority or of the tutor is punished by two (02) years to five (05) years of imprisonment and
p.000007: from a fine of five million (5,000,000) francs to twenty million (20,000,000) francs
p.000007: CFA.
p.000007: The same penalties apply when biomedical research is carried out when consent has been given.
p.000007: been removed.
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Social / Victim of Abuse
Searching for indicator victim:
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p.000006: unprotected sex with a partner who is not aware of their HIV status, even if they or
p.000006: this one is HIV positive, will be punished with criminal imprisonment from five (05) to ten
p.000006: (10) years and a fine of one million (1,000,000) francs to five million (5,000,000) CFA francs.
p.000006: Article 28: Laboratories or similar institutions are prohibited from accepting or storing blood donation,
p.000006: tissue or organs without a blood, tissue or organ sample tested negative for HIV.
p.000006: Article 29: Whoever administered voluntarily, in any way whatsoever, blood
p.000006: infected with HIV to a person, will be punished with life imprisonment.
p.000006: If the act was committed through negligence, recklessness, clumsiness or non-compliance with the regulations by
p.000006: any person, the culprit will be punished by one (01) year to five (05) years of imprisonment.
p.000006: Article 30: Anyone knowing that he is infected with the AIDS virus who, using violence, coercion or surprise,
p.000006: not have sex
p.000007: 7
p.000007: protected of any kind whatsoever with a person, will be punished with time imprisonment for five
p.000007: (05) at twenty (20) years and a fine of three million (3,000,000) francs to ten million (10,000,000) francs
p.000007: CFA.
p.000007: If the act was committed under threat by one or more persons, by a legitimate, natural or adoptive ascendant of
p.000007: the victim or by a person who has abused the authority conferred on him by his functions, over a vulnerable person,
p.000007: an incapacitated person or a minor, the penalty will be life imprisonment.
p.000007: Article 31: The fact of practicing or having practiced on a person infected with HIV, a
p.000007: biomedical research without having obtained the informed and express consent of the person concerned,
p.000007: of holders of parental authority or of the tutor is punished by two (02) years to five (05) years of imprisonment and
p.000007: from a fine of five million (5,000,000) francs to twenty million (20,000,000) francs
p.000007: CFA.
p.000007: The same penalties apply when biomedical research is carried out when consent has been given.
p.000007: been removed.
p.000007: Article 32: Anyone who has exhibited or caused to be exhibited, neglected or caused to be abandoned, in a solitary place, a
p.000007: a child or an adult incapacitated suffering from AIDS, will be, for this sole fact, sentenced to imprisonment for one (01) year at
p.000007: three (03) years and a fine of fifty thousand (50,000) francs to two hundred thousand (200,000) CFA francs,
p.000007: or only one of these two sentences.
p.000007: Article 33: Will be punished by imprisonment from six (06) months to two (02) years and a fine of one hundred thousand
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Social / Women
Searching for indicator women:
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p.000001: STI: sexually transmitted infections which are the main entry points for HIV in
p.000001: the organization;
p.000001: ARV: Antiretrovirals which are drugs which act on different phases of replication of the virus;
p.000001: 1
p.000001: Socio-sanitary structures: Health centers, counseling and listening centers, care centers
p.000001: public, private, associative, faith-based or for-profit psychosocial work;
p.000001: Management of PLWHA: offer of medical services (consultations, care, treatment with ARVs,
p.000001: minimum package of psychosocial and nutritional biological examinations;
p.000001: Special assistance: medical, psychosocial, and / or nutritional services offered free of charge to
p.000001: Very poor PLHIV;
p.000001: Incapable: subjects with mental retardation (senile or pathological dementia, etc.) and incapacity
p.000001: physical (bedridden patients who necessarily need assistance to meet their basic needs);
p.000001: Social health service providers: person, community or public, semi-public or private structure that
p.000001: offers socio-health services;
p.000001: People at high risk: sex workers posted or clandestine who have sex
p.000001: against remuneration;
p.000001: Vulnerable people: children, women and all other incapacitated people;
p.000001: Approved persons: natural or legal persons legally and legally authorized to issue
p.000001: a medical certificate or any other administrative document attesting to the state of health of a PLWHA;
p.000001: Employer: Any person or organization employing workers under an employment contract
p.000001: written or oral which establishes the rights and duties of the parties, in accordance with law and practice
p.000001: national. Can be employers, Government, public authorities, public or private companies and
p.000001: the details ;
p.000001: Accommodation: Adaptation of the job or the working environment which is reasonably achievable and which allows
p.000001: PLHIV to have access to employment, to work or to gain advancement.
p.000001: HIV / AIDS counseling: Communication technique which consists in informing the patient about HIV / AIDS, how to
p.000001: contamination, means of screening, treatment and prevention as well as the consequences on partners
p.000001: before and after the test.
p.000001: Gender: It is the recognition of the difference between man and woman without implying a difference in treatment.
p.000002: 2
p.000002: TITLE II
p.000002: THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION AND PROCESSING
p.000002: Article 2: Anyone with a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) or living with the
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Social / Youth/Minors
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p.000002: The medical profession must ensure that the information and exchange elements have been clearly understood.
p.000003: 3
p.000003: Article 5: Everyone infected or affected by HIV has the right to confidentiality and respect for
p.000003: his private life. Restrictions can only be made in exceptional circumstances.
p.000003: Article 6: The doctor or any person holding, by profession, information on the status
p.000003: patient's serology, cannot disclose it to other people without the patient's prior notice, except in
p.000003: the following cases:
p.000003: - cases of extreme necessity;
p.000003: - patient unable to consent;
p.000003: - HIV-positive person whose behavior is likely to endanger the health of others;
p.000003: - minors and incapable persons.
p.000003: Article 7: The doctor is required, in criminal matters and at the request of the judge, to make available to the
p.000003: jurisdiction, the results of the analysis performed on a patient.
p.000003: TITLE III
p.000003: THE IMPACT OF AIDS ON THE INDIVIDUAL, SOCIETY AND THE WORLD
p.000003: Article 8: Anyone suffering from AIDS or carrying HIV has the right to declare it to the social services
p.000003: sanitary facilities.
p.000003: In the event of express declaration of the disease to the aforementioned structures, people suffering from AIDS or carrying the
p.000003: HIV receive special assistance.
p.000003: This declaration must be duly verified by a doctor.
p.000003: Minor children of people who died from AIDS receive medical assistance
p.000003: and psychosocial assistance from the community, the State and its decentralized structures, or
p.000003: decentralized.
p.000003: To this end, a special fund for struggle and assistance in matters of
p.000003: AIDS.
p.000003: A decree issued by the Council of Ministers will fix the procedures for its creation and
p.000003: Operating.
p.000003: Article 9: People suffering from AIDS or carrying HIV receive all medical care adapted to the disease
p.000003: in accordance with article 18 of law 2003-04 of 03 March 2003 relating to sexual health and reproduction.
p.000003: Article 10: Anyone who has reached the required legal age, and who decides to marry, does so with their free and
p.000003: full consent. During the premarital examination, HIV testing should be offered to future spouses.
p.000004: 4
p.000004: TITLE IV:
p.000004: MEDICAL ETHICS
p.000004: Article 11: The health worker who has agreed to provide care for a person living with HIV / AIDS
p.000004: undertakes to:
p.000004: - provide personally or with the help of qualified third parties all medical care in their power and
p.000004: necessary in the circumstances;
p.000004: - always act with correction, empathy and with kindness towards the patient.
p.000004: Article 12: The health worker called emergency to a minor or an incapable adult
p.000004: living with HIV / AIDS, when it is not possible to obtain timely consent from the
p.000004: legal representative, has the obligation to give the necessary care.
p.000004: Article 13: The State takes all the measures to make compulsory the medical follow-up of people to
p.000004: the high HIV transmission potential of sex workers, homosexuals,
p.000004: intravenous drug users and encourage voluntary HIV testing.
p.000004: TITLE V:
p.000004: AIDS IN THE MIDDLE OF WORK
p.000004: Article 14: The employer in the public, semi-public or private sector cannot require a candidate to be hired
p.000004: or the HIV testing test / recruitment competition.
p.000004: Article 15: Refusal to select a candidate for a recruitment test / competition or to hire a
p.000004: jobseekers on the grounds that they have HIV is a crime.
p.000004: Article 16: The dismissal of a worker on the grounds that he is carrying HIV is abusive.
p.000004: Article 17: The State and its decentralized structures as well as private or semi-public structures must
p.000004: encourage, through measures, donations and subsidies, families and reception centers to receive
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p.000006: Article 28: Laboratories or similar institutions are prohibited from accepting or storing blood donation,
p.000006: tissue or organs without a blood, tissue or organ sample tested negative for HIV.
p.000006: Article 29: Whoever administered voluntarily, in any way whatsoever, blood
p.000006: infected with HIV to a person, will be punished with life imprisonment.
p.000006: If the act was committed through negligence, recklessness, clumsiness or non-compliance with the regulations by
p.000006: any person, the culprit will be punished by one (01) year to five (05) years of imprisonment.
p.000006: Article 30: Anyone knowing that he is infected with the AIDS virus who, using violence, coercion or surprise,
p.000006: not have sex
p.000007: 7
p.000007: protected of any kind whatsoever with a person, will be punished with time imprisonment for five
p.000007: (05) at twenty (20) years and a fine of three million (3,000,000) francs to ten million (10,000,000) francs
p.000007: CFA.
p.000007: If the act was committed under threat by one or more persons, by a legitimate, natural or adoptive ascendant of
p.000007: the victim or by a person who has abused the authority conferred on him by his functions, over a vulnerable person,
p.000007: an incapacitated person or a minor, the penalty will be life imprisonment.
p.000007: Article 31: The fact of practicing or having practiced on a person infected with HIV, a
p.000007: biomedical research without having obtained the informed and express consent of the person concerned,
p.000007: of holders of parental authority or of the tutor is punished by two (02) years to five (05) years of imprisonment and
p.000007: from a fine of five million (5,000,000) francs to twenty million (20,000,000) francs
p.000007: CFA.
p.000007: The same penalties apply when biomedical research is carried out when consent has been given.
p.000007: been removed.
p.000007: Article 32: Anyone who has exhibited or caused to be exhibited, neglected or caused to be abandoned, in a solitary place, a
p.000007: a child or an adult incapacitated suffering from AIDS, will be, for this sole fact, sentenced to imprisonment for one (01) year at
p.000007: three (03) years and a fine of fifty thousand (50,000) francs to two hundred thousand (200,000) CFA francs,
p.000007: or only one of these two sentences.
p.000007: Article 33: Will be punished by imprisonment from six (06) months to two (02) years and a fine of one hundred thousand
p.000007: (100,000) francs to one million (1,000,000) francs or one of these two penalties only:
p.000007: 1- The father or mother who gives up on the grounds of HIV seropositivity, during
p.000007: more than two (02) months the family residence, thus evading, in whole or in part from its obligations
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Social / education
Searching for indicator education:
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p.000001: a medical certificate or any other administrative document attesting to the state of health of a PLWHA;
p.000001: Employer: Any person or organization employing workers under an employment contract
p.000001: written or oral which establishes the rights and duties of the parties, in accordance with law and practice
p.000001: national. Can be employers, Government, public authorities, public or private companies and
p.000001: the details ;
p.000001: Accommodation: Adaptation of the job or the working environment which is reasonably achievable and which allows
p.000001: PLHIV to have access to employment, to work or to gain advancement.
p.000001: HIV / AIDS counseling: Communication technique which consists in informing the patient about HIV / AIDS, how to
p.000001: contamination, means of screening, treatment and prevention as well as the consequences on partners
p.000001: before and after the test.
p.000001: Gender: It is the recognition of the difference between man and woman without implying a difference in treatment.
p.000002: 2
p.000002: TITLE II
p.000002: THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION AND PROCESSING
p.000002: Article 2: Anyone with a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) or living with the
p.000002: HIV, must enjoy without discrimination, civil, political and social rights (housing, education, employment, health,
p.000002: social protection etc.)
p.000002: She has the right to benefit from special assistance, basic care, treatment and a guarantee
p.000002: confidentiality in its relations with the socio-health professional.
p.000002: People with HIV or AIDS who report it receive assistance
p.000002: special advice, psychosocial, nutritional, medical, material support; they receive
p.000002: medical care, in accordance with the standards and procedures in force.
p.000002: Special assistance in counseling, psychosocial, nutritional, medical and material support must
p.000002: be provided by the family, the State and its decentralized and decentralized structures, civil society,
p.000002: communities and anyone in a position to provide such assistance.
p.000002: Article 3: All HIV testing must be done with the free and informed consent of the person concerned and
p.000002: accompanied by pre and post test HIV / AIDS counseling. For minors or incapacitated persons, the
p.000002: consent of the legal representative may be required.
p.000002: Article 4: The doctor who has found that a person has HIV or has AIDS has the obligation to do so
p.000002: condition to the patient but cannot in any case disclose this information. However the statistical data
p.000002: must be transmitted to the Ministry responsible for health.
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Social / gender
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p.000001: offers socio-health services;
p.000001: People at high risk: sex workers posted or clandestine who have sex
p.000001: against remuneration;
p.000001: Vulnerable people: children, women and all other incapacitated people;
p.000001: Approved persons: natural or legal persons legally and legally authorized to issue
p.000001: a medical certificate or any other administrative document attesting to the state of health of a PLWHA;
p.000001: Employer: Any person or organization employing workers under an employment contract
p.000001: written or oral which establishes the rights and duties of the parties, in accordance with law and practice
p.000001: national. Can be employers, Government, public authorities, public or private companies and
p.000001: the details ;
p.000001: Accommodation: Adaptation of the job or the working environment which is reasonably achievable and which allows
p.000001: PLHIV to have access to employment, to work or to gain advancement.
p.000001: HIV / AIDS counseling: Communication technique which consists in informing the patient about HIV / AIDS, how to
p.000001: contamination, means of screening, treatment and prevention as well as the consequences on partners
p.000001: before and after the test.
p.000001: Gender: It is the recognition of the difference between man and woman without implying a difference in treatment.
p.000002: 2
p.000002: TITLE II
p.000002: THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION AND PROCESSING
p.000002: Article 2: Anyone with a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) or living with the
p.000002: HIV, must enjoy without discrimination, civil, political and social rights (housing, education, employment, health,
p.000002: social protection etc.)
p.000002: She has the right to benefit from special assistance, basic care, treatment and a guarantee
p.000002: confidentiality in its relations with the socio-health professional.
p.000002: People with HIV or AIDS who report it receive assistance
p.000002: special advice, psychosocial, nutritional, medical, material support; they receive
p.000002: medical care, in accordance with the standards and procedures in force.
p.000002: Special assistance in counseling, psychosocial, nutritional, medical and material support must
p.000002: be provided by the family, the State and its decentralized and decentralized structures, civil society,
p.000002: communities and anyone in a position to provide such assistance.
p.000002: Article 3: All HIV testing must be done with the free and informed consent of the person concerned and
p.000002: accompanied by pre and post test HIV / AIDS counseling. For minors or incapacitated persons, the
p.000002: consent of the legal representative may be required.
p.000002: Article 4: The doctor who has found that a person has HIV or has AIDS has the obligation to do so
p.000002: condition to the patient but cannot in any case disclose this information. However the statistical data
p.000002: must be transmitted to the Ministry responsible for health.
p.000002: The doctor’s language must respect human dignity and reflect the patient’s acceptance. he
p.000002: must be gender sensitive, precise and understandable.
p.000002: Anyone tested positive for HIV has the obligation to inform their partner (s), with the support of a
p.000002: advise if necessary.
p.000002: The partner (s), on the basis of free and informed consent, will be tested for HIV and, in
p.000002: if positive, will receive the necessary information, prevention advice, and appropriate care.
p.000002: The medical profession must ensure that the information and exchange elements have been clearly understood.
p.000003: 3
p.000003: Article 5: Everyone infected or affected by HIV has the right to confidentiality and respect for
p.000003: his private life. Restrictions can only be made in exceptional circumstances.
p.000003: Article 6: The doctor or any person holding, by profession, information on the status
p.000003: patient's serology, cannot disclose it to other people without the patient's prior notice, except in
p.000003: the following cases:
p.000003: - cases of extreme necessity;
p.000003: - patient unable to consent;
p.000003: - HIV-positive person whose behavior is likely to endanger the health of others;
p.000003: - minors and incapable persons.
p.000003: Article 7: The doctor is required, in criminal matters and at the request of the judge, to make available to the
p.000003: jurisdiction, the results of the analysis performed on a patient.
p.000003: TITLE III
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Social / parents
Searching for indicator parent:
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p.000001: REPUBLIC OF BENIN PRESIDENCY OF THE REPUBLIC
p.000001: LAW N ° 2005-31 OF APRIL 05, 2006
p.000001: Concerning prevention, care and control of HIV AIDS in the Republic of Benin.
p.000001: The NATIONAL ASSEMBLY deliberated and adopted in its session of Thursday August 18, 2005 then in its session of January 30, 2006
p.000001: following Decision DCC 05-141 of November 21, 2005 of the Constitutional Court, for compliance with
p.000001: the Constitution,
p.000001: Following the Decision of the Constitutional Court DCC 06-041 of April 04, 2006 for conformity with the Constitution,
p.000001: THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC promulgates the following law:
p.000001: PRELIMINARY TITLE
p.000001: GENERAL PROVISIONS
p.000001: Article 1: Definitions of terms and concepts:
p.000001: HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus responsible for the infection. There are two serotypes and several
p.000001: subtypes:
p.000001: AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. It is the final stage of the disease characterized by the appearance of
p.000001: opportunistic diseases and increased viral load;
p.000001: PLWHIV: Person living with HIV;
p.000001: People affected by HIV: Anyone with a direct parent: father, mother, children or
p.000001: spouse, siblings died from HIV or has HIV;
p.000001: STI: sexually transmitted infections which are the main entry points for HIV in
p.000001: the organization;
p.000001: ARV: Antiretrovirals which are drugs which act on different phases of replication of the virus;
p.000001: 1
p.000001: Socio-sanitary structures: Health centers, counseling and listening centers, care centers
p.000001: public, private, associative, faith-based or for-profit psychosocial work;
p.000001: Management of PLWHA: offer of medical services (consultations, care, treatment with ARVs,
p.000001: minimum package of psychosocial and nutritional biological examinations;
p.000001: Special assistance: medical, psychosocial, and / or nutritional services offered free of charge to
p.000001: Very poor PLHIV;
p.000001: Incapable: subjects with mental retardation (senile or pathological dementia, etc.) and incapacity
p.000001: physical (bedridden patients who necessarily need assistance to meet their basic needs);
p.000001: Social health service providers: person, community or public, semi-public or private structure that
p.000001: offers socio-health services;
p.000001: People at high risk: sex workers posted or clandestine who have sex
p.000001: against remuneration;
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Social / sex worker
Searching for indicator sex workers:
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p.000001: spouse, siblings died from HIV or has HIV;
p.000001: STI: sexually transmitted infections which are the main entry points for HIV in
p.000001: the organization;
p.000001: ARV: Antiretrovirals which are drugs which act on different phases of replication of the virus;
p.000001: 1
p.000001: Socio-sanitary structures: Health centers, counseling and listening centers, care centers
p.000001: public, private, associative, faith-based or for-profit psychosocial work;
p.000001: Management of PLWHA: offer of medical services (consultations, care, treatment with ARVs,
p.000001: minimum package of psychosocial and nutritional biological examinations;
p.000001: Special assistance: medical, psychosocial, and / or nutritional services offered free of charge to
p.000001: Very poor PLHIV;
p.000001: Incapable: subjects with mental retardation (senile or pathological dementia, etc.) and incapacity
p.000001: physical (bedridden patients who necessarily need assistance to meet their basic needs);
p.000001: Social health service providers: person, community or public, semi-public or private structure that
p.000001: offers socio-health services;
p.000001: People at high risk: sex workers posted or clandestine who have sex
p.000001: against remuneration;
p.000001: Vulnerable people: children, women and all other incapacitated people;
p.000001: Approved persons: natural or legal persons legally and legally authorized to issue
p.000001: a medical certificate or any other administrative document attesting to the state of health of a PLWHA;
p.000001: Employer: Any person or organization employing workers under an employment contract
p.000001: written or oral which establishes the rights and duties of the parties, in accordance with law and practice
p.000001: national. Can be employers, Government, public authorities, public or private companies and
p.000001: the details ;
p.000001: Accommodation: Adaptation of the job or the working environment which is reasonably achievable and which allows
p.000001: PLHIV to have access to employment, to work or to gain advancement.
p.000001: HIV / AIDS counseling: Communication technique which consists in informing the patient about HIV / AIDS, how to
p.000001: contamination, means of screening, treatment and prevention as well as the consequences on partners
p.000001: before and after the test.
p.000001: Gender: It is the recognition of the difference between man and woman without implying a difference in treatment.
p.000002: 2
p.000002: TITLE II
p.000002: THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION AND PROCESSING
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p.000003: in accordance with article 18 of law 2003-04 of 03 March 2003 relating to sexual health and reproduction.
p.000003: Article 10: Anyone who has reached the required legal age, and who decides to marry, does so with their free and
p.000003: full consent. During the premarital examination, HIV testing should be offered to future spouses.
p.000004: 4
p.000004: TITLE IV:
p.000004: MEDICAL ETHICS
p.000004: Article 11: The health worker who has agreed to provide care for a person living with HIV / AIDS
p.000004: undertakes to:
p.000004: - provide personally or with the help of qualified third parties all medical care in their power and
p.000004: necessary in the circumstances;
p.000004: - always act with correction, empathy and with kindness towards the patient.
p.000004: Article 12: The health worker called emergency to a minor or an incapable adult
p.000004: living with HIV / AIDS, when it is not possible to obtain timely consent from the
p.000004: legal representative, has the obligation to give the necessary care.
p.000004: Article 13: The State takes all the measures to make compulsory the medical follow-up of people to
p.000004: the high HIV transmission potential of sex workers, homosexuals,
p.000004: intravenous drug users and encourage voluntary HIV testing.
p.000004: TITLE V:
p.000004: AIDS IN THE MIDDLE OF WORK
p.000004: Article 14: The employer in the public, semi-public or private sector cannot require a candidate to be hired
p.000004: or the HIV testing test / recruitment competition.
p.000004: Article 15: Refusal to select a candidate for a recruitment test / competition or to hire a
p.000004: jobseekers on the grounds that they have HIV is a crime.
p.000004: Article 16: The dismissal of a worker on the grounds that he is carrying HIV is abusive.
p.000004: Article 17: The State and its decentralized structures as well as private or semi-public structures must
p.000004: encourage, through measures, donations and subsidies, families and reception centers to receive
p.000004: orphans and children vulnerable to AIDS.
p.000004: Article 18: Any attitude or regulatory provision is prohibited in the workplace
p.000004: likely to discriminate against or stigmatize a worker
p.000005: 5
p.000005: made of his HIV status, such as refusal of promotion, refusal of opportunities for
p.000005: internships or other types of training, access to social protection benefits.
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Economic / Economic/Poverty
Searching for indicator poor:
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p.000001: HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus responsible for the infection. There are two serotypes and several
p.000001: subtypes:
p.000001: AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. It is the final stage of the disease characterized by the appearance of
p.000001: opportunistic diseases and increased viral load;
p.000001: PLWHIV: Person living with HIV;
p.000001: People affected by HIV: Anyone with a direct parent: father, mother, children or
p.000001: spouse, siblings died from HIV or has HIV;
p.000001: STI: sexually transmitted infections which are the main entry points for HIV in
p.000001: the organization;
p.000001: ARV: Antiretrovirals which are drugs which act on different phases of replication of the virus;
p.000001: 1
p.000001: Socio-sanitary structures: Health centers, counseling and listening centers, care centers
p.000001: public, private, associative, faith-based or for-profit psychosocial work;
p.000001: Management of PLWHA: offer of medical services (consultations, care, treatment with ARVs,
p.000001: minimum package of psychosocial and nutritional biological examinations;
p.000001: Special assistance: medical, psychosocial, and / or nutritional services offered free of charge to
p.000001: Very poor PLHIV;
p.000001: Incapable: subjects with mental retardation (senile or pathological dementia, etc.) and incapacity
p.000001: physical (bedridden patients who necessarily need assistance to meet their basic needs);
p.000001: Social health service providers: person, community or public, semi-public or private structure that
p.000001: offers socio-health services;
p.000001: People at high risk: sex workers posted or clandestine who have sex
p.000001: against remuneration;
p.000001: Vulnerable people: children, women and all other incapacitated people;
p.000001: Approved persons: natural or legal persons legally and legally authorized to issue
p.000001: a medical certificate or any other administrative document attesting to the state of health of a PLWHA;
p.000001: Employer: Any person or organization employing workers under an employment contract
p.000001: written or oral which establishes the rights and duties of the parties, in accordance with law and practice
p.000001: national. Can be employers, Government, public authorities, public or private companies and
p.000001: the details ;
p.000001: Accommodation: Adaptation of the job or the working environment which is reasonably achievable and which allows
p.000001: PLHIV to have access to employment, to work or to gain advancement.
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General/Other / Incapacitated
Searching for indicator incapacitated:
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p.000001: STI: sexually transmitted infections which are the main entry points for HIV in
p.000001: the organization;
p.000001: ARV: Antiretrovirals which are drugs which act on different phases of replication of the virus;
p.000001: 1
p.000001: Socio-sanitary structures: Health centers, counseling and listening centers, care centers
p.000001: public, private, associative, faith-based or for-profit psychosocial work;
p.000001: Management of PLWHA: offer of medical services (consultations, care, treatment with ARVs,
p.000001: minimum package of psychosocial and nutritional biological examinations;
p.000001: Special assistance: medical, psychosocial, and / or nutritional services offered free of charge to
p.000001: Very poor PLHIV;
p.000001: Incapable: subjects with mental retardation (senile or pathological dementia, etc.) and incapacity
p.000001: physical (bedridden patients who necessarily need assistance to meet their basic needs);
p.000001: Social health service providers: person, community or public, semi-public or private structure that
p.000001: offers socio-health services;
p.000001: People at high risk: sex workers posted or clandestine who have sex
p.000001: against remuneration;
p.000001: Vulnerable people: children, women and all other incapacitated people;
p.000001: Approved persons: natural or legal persons legally and legally authorized to issue
p.000001: a medical certificate or any other administrative document attesting to the state of health of a PLWHA;
p.000001: Employer: Any person or organization employing workers under an employment contract
p.000001: written or oral which establishes the rights and duties of the parties, in accordance with law and practice
p.000001: national. Can be employers, Government, public authorities, public or private companies and
p.000001: the details ;
p.000001: Accommodation: Adaptation of the job or the working environment which is reasonably achievable and which allows
p.000001: PLHIV to have access to employment, to work or to gain advancement.
p.000001: HIV / AIDS counseling: Communication technique which consists in informing the patient about HIV / AIDS, how to
p.000001: contamination, means of screening, treatment and prevention as well as the consequences on partners
p.000001: before and after the test.
p.000001: Gender: It is the recognition of the difference between man and woman without implying a difference in treatment.
p.000002: 2
p.000002: TITLE II
p.000002: THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION AND PROCESSING
p.000002: Article 2: Anyone with a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) or living with the
p.000002: HIV, must enjoy without discrimination, civil, political and social rights (housing, education, employment, health,
p.000002: social protection etc.)
p.000002: She has the right to benefit from special assistance, basic care, treatment and a guarantee
p.000002: confidentiality in its relations with the socio-health professional.
p.000002: People with HIV or AIDS who report it receive assistance
p.000002: special advice, psychosocial, nutritional, medical, material support; they receive
p.000002: medical care, in accordance with the standards and procedures in force.
p.000002: Special assistance in counseling, psychosocial, nutritional, medical and material support must
p.000002: be provided by the family, the State and its decentralized and decentralized structures, civil society,
p.000002: communities and anyone in a position to provide such assistance.
p.000002: Article 3: All HIV testing must be done with the free and informed consent of the person concerned and
p.000002: accompanied by pre and post test HIV / AIDS counseling. For minors or incapacitated persons, the
p.000002: consent of the legal representative may be required.
p.000002: Article 4: The doctor who has found that a person has HIV or has AIDS has the obligation to do so
p.000002: condition to the patient but cannot in any case disclose this information. However the statistical data
p.000002: must be transmitted to the Ministry responsible for health.
p.000002: The doctor’s language must respect human dignity and reflect the patient’s acceptance. he
p.000002: must be gender sensitive, precise and understandable.
p.000002: Anyone tested positive for HIV has the obligation to inform their partner (s), with the support of a
p.000002: advise if necessary.
p.000002: The partner (s), on the basis of free and informed consent, will be tested for HIV and, in
p.000002: if positive, will receive the necessary information, prevention advice, and appropriate care.
p.000002: The medical profession must ensure that the information and exchange elements have been clearly understood.
p.000003: 3
p.000003: Article 5: Everyone infected or affected by HIV has the right to confidentiality and respect for
p.000003: his private life. Restrictions can only be made in exceptional circumstances.
p.000003: Article 6: The doctor or any person holding, by profession, information on the status
p.000003: patient's serology, cannot disclose it to other people without the patient's prior notice, except in
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p.000006: (10) years and a fine of one million (1,000,000) francs to five million (5,000,000) CFA francs.
p.000006: Article 28: Laboratories or similar institutions are prohibited from accepting or storing blood donation,
p.000006: tissue or organs without a blood, tissue or organ sample tested negative for HIV.
p.000006: Article 29: Whoever administered voluntarily, in any way whatsoever, blood
p.000006: infected with HIV to a person, will be punished with life imprisonment.
p.000006: If the act was committed through negligence, recklessness, clumsiness or non-compliance with the regulations by
p.000006: any person, the culprit will be punished by one (01) year to five (05) years of imprisonment.
p.000006: Article 30: Anyone knowing that he is infected with the AIDS virus who, using violence, coercion or surprise,
p.000006: not have sex
p.000007: 7
p.000007: protected of any kind whatsoever with a person, will be punished with time imprisonment for five
p.000007: (05) at twenty (20) years and a fine of three million (3,000,000) francs to ten million (10,000,000) francs
p.000007: CFA.
p.000007: If the act was committed under threat by one or more persons, by a legitimate, natural or adoptive ascendant of
p.000007: the victim or by a person who has abused the authority conferred on him by his functions, over a vulnerable person,
p.000007: an incapacitated person or a minor, the penalty will be life imprisonment.
p.000007: Article 31: The fact of practicing or having practiced on a person infected with HIV, a
p.000007: biomedical research without having obtained the informed and express consent of the person concerned,
p.000007: of holders of parental authority or of the tutor is punished by two (02) years to five (05) years of imprisonment and
p.000007: from a fine of five million (5,000,000) francs to twenty million (20,000,000) francs
p.000007: CFA.
p.000007: The same penalties apply when biomedical research is carried out when consent has been given.
p.000007: been removed.
p.000007: Article 32: Anyone who has exhibited or caused to be exhibited, neglected or caused to be abandoned, in a solitary place, a
p.000007: a child or an adult incapacitated suffering from AIDS, will be, for this sole fact, sentenced to imprisonment for one (01) year at
p.000007: three (03) years and a fine of fifty thousand (50,000) francs to two hundred thousand (200,000) CFA francs,
p.000007: or only one of these two sentences.
p.000007: Article 33: Will be punished by imprisonment from six (06) months to two (02) years and a fine of one hundred thousand
p.000007: (100,000) francs to one million (1,000,000) francs or one of these two penalties only:
p.000007: 1- The father or mother who gives up on the grounds of HIV seropositivity, during
p.000007: more than two (02) months the family residence, thus evading, in whole or in part from its obligations
p.000007: moral or material;
p.000007: 2- The husband or the wife, who for reason of HIV seropositivity, voluntarily abandons his or her
p.000007: partner ;
p.000007: 3- The father or the mother or the tutor who voluntarily abandons his child, knowing that he is carrying HIV.
p.000007: Article 34: Anyone who has forged, falsified or altered medical certificates or other documents
p.000007: relating to HIV / AIDS issued by approved persons will be punished by imprisonment of five (05) years to twenty
p.000007: (20) years and a fine of three million (3,000,000) francs to ten million (10,000,000) CFA francs.
p.000007: The same penalties will be applied to persons who knowingly use these forged documents or
p.000007: falsified.
p.000008: 8
p.000008: The attempt will be punished as the consummated offense.
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General/Other / Public Emergency
Searching for indicator emergency:
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p.000003: This declaration must be duly verified by a doctor.
p.000003: Minor children of people who died from AIDS receive medical assistance
p.000003: and psychosocial assistance from the community, the State and its decentralized structures, or
p.000003: decentralized.
p.000003: To this end, a special fund for struggle and assistance in matters of
p.000003: AIDS.
p.000003: A decree issued by the Council of Ministers will fix the procedures for its creation and
p.000003: Operating.
p.000003: Article 9: People suffering from AIDS or carrying HIV receive all medical care adapted to the disease
p.000003: in accordance with article 18 of law 2003-04 of 03 March 2003 relating to sexual health and reproduction.
p.000003: Article 10: Anyone who has reached the required legal age, and who decides to marry, does so with their free and
p.000003: full consent. During the premarital examination, HIV testing should be offered to future spouses.
p.000004: 4
p.000004: TITLE IV:
p.000004: MEDICAL ETHICS
p.000004: Article 11: The health worker who has agreed to provide care for a person living with HIV / AIDS
p.000004: undertakes to:
p.000004: - provide personally or with the help of qualified third parties all medical care in their power and
p.000004: necessary in the circumstances;
p.000004: - always act with correction, empathy and with kindness towards the patient.
p.000004: Article 12: The health worker called emergency to a minor or an incapable adult
p.000004: living with HIV / AIDS, when it is not possible to obtain timely consent from the
p.000004: legal representative, has the obligation to give the necessary care.
p.000004: Article 13: The State takes all the measures to make compulsory the medical follow-up of people to
p.000004: the high HIV transmission potential of sex workers, homosexuals,
p.000004: intravenous drug users and encourage voluntary HIV testing.
p.000004: TITLE V:
p.000004: AIDS IN THE MIDDLE OF WORK
p.000004: Article 14: The employer in the public, semi-public or private sector cannot require a candidate to be hired
p.000004: or the HIV testing test / recruitment competition.
p.000004: Article 15: Refusal to select a candidate for a recruitment test / competition or to hire a
p.000004: jobseekers on the grounds that they have HIV is a crime.
p.000004: Article 16: The dismissal of a worker on the grounds that he is carrying HIV is abusive.
p.000004: Article 17: The State and its decentralized structures as well as private or semi-public structures must
p.000004: encourage, through measures, donations and subsidies, families and reception centers to receive
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General/Other / Relationship to Authority
Searching for indicator authority:
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p.000006: this one is HIV positive, will be punished with criminal imprisonment from five (05) to ten
p.000006: (10) years and a fine of one million (1,000,000) francs to five million (5,000,000) CFA francs.
p.000006: Article 28: Laboratories or similar institutions are prohibited from accepting or storing blood donation,
p.000006: tissue or organs without a blood, tissue or organ sample tested negative for HIV.
p.000006: Article 29: Whoever administered voluntarily, in any way whatsoever, blood
p.000006: infected with HIV to a person, will be punished with life imprisonment.
p.000006: If the act was committed through negligence, recklessness, clumsiness or non-compliance with the regulations by
p.000006: any person, the culprit will be punished by one (01) year to five (05) years of imprisonment.
p.000006: Article 30: Anyone knowing that he is infected with the AIDS virus who, using violence, coercion or surprise,
p.000006: not have sex
p.000007: 7
p.000007: protected of any kind whatsoever with a person, will be punished with time imprisonment for five
p.000007: (05) at twenty (20) years and a fine of three million (3,000,000) francs to ten million (10,000,000) francs
p.000007: CFA.
p.000007: If the act was committed under threat by one or more persons, by a legitimate, natural or adoptive ascendant of
p.000007: the victim or by a person who has abused the authority conferred on him by his functions, over a vulnerable person,
p.000007: an incapacitated person or a minor, the penalty will be life imprisonment.
p.000007: Article 31: The fact of practicing or having practiced on a person infected with HIV, a
p.000007: biomedical research without having obtained the informed and express consent of the person concerned,
p.000007: of holders of parental authority or of the tutor is punished by two (02) years to five (05) years of imprisonment and
p.000007: from a fine of five million (5,000,000) francs to twenty million (20,000,000) francs
p.000007: CFA.
p.000007: The same penalties apply when biomedical research is carried out when consent has been given.
p.000007: been removed.
p.000007: Article 32: Anyone who has exhibited or caused to be exhibited, neglected or caused to be abandoned, in a solitary place, a
p.000007: a child or an adult incapacitated suffering from AIDS, will be, for this sole fact, sentenced to imprisonment for one (01) year at
p.000007: three (03) years and a fine of fifty thousand (50,000) francs to two hundred thousand (200,000) CFA francs,
p.000007: or only one of these two sentences.
p.000007: Article 33: Will be punished by imprisonment from six (06) months to two (02) years and a fine of one hundred thousand
p.000007: (100,000) francs to one million (1,000,000) francs or one of these two penalties only:
p.000007: 1- The father or mother who gives up on the grounds of HIV seropositivity, during
p.000007: more than two (02) months the family residence, thus evading, in whole or in part from its obligations
p.000007: moral or material;
p.000007: 2- The husband or the wife, who for reason of HIV seropositivity, voluntarily abandons his or her
p.000007: partner ;
p.000007: 3- The father or the mother or the tutor who voluntarily abandons his child, knowing that he is carrying HIV.
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Orphaned Trigger Words
Appendix
Indicator List
| Indicator | Vulnerability |
|---|
| HIV | HIV/AIDS |
| access | Access to Social Goods |
| age | Age |
| authority | Relationship to Authority |
| child | Child |
| children | Child |
| crime | Illegal Activity |
| criminal | criminal |
| drug | Drug Usage |
| education | education |
| emergency | Public Emergency |
| faith | Religion |
| family | Motherhood/Family |
| gender | gender |
| incapable | Mentally Incapacitated |
| incapacitated | Incapacitated |
| job | Occupation |
| language | Linguistic Proficiency |
| minor | Youth/Minors |
| parent | parents |
| political | political affiliation |
| poor | Economic/Poverty |
| sex workers | sex worker |
| sexually transmitted | sexually transmitted disases |
| sti | sexually transmitted disases |
| threat | Threat of Stigma |
| victim | Victim of Abuse |
| violence | Threat of Violence |
| vulnerable | vulnerable |
| women | Women |
Indicator Peers (Indicators in Same Vulnerability)
| Indicator | Peers |
|---|
| child | ['children'] |
| children | ['child'] |
| sexually transmitted | ['sti'] |
| sti | ['sexuallyXtransmitted'] |
Trigger Words
coercion
consent
protection
risk
sensitive
Applicable Type / Vulnerability / Indicator Overlay for this Input