Working with HIV: Volkswagen is flying the flag against discrimination
Today, people can live and work with HIV just like anyone else – yet they experience disadvantages in their everyday lives. By signing the #positivarbeiten (#workingpositively) declaration, Volkswagen Group has committed itself to protecting HIV-positive employees from discrimination and to promoting an open and respectful coexistence.
The declaration #positivarbeiten / #workingpositively states: “Whether at work, in a partnership or in leisure time: With timely diagnosis and therapy, HIV today no longer needs to entail any restrictions. People with HIV can pursue any profession. They are just as capable as other people. An HIV transmission in the daily work routine is impossible, under therapy HIV is generally no longer transmissible. HIV-positive employees are colleagues like everyone else.”
By signing the declaration, Volkswagen has committed itself to protecting people with HIV and other chronic illnesses from discrimination and to sensitizing managers to the issue. Volkswagen is thus making it clear that employees with HIV are welcome and can show themselves openly if they wish.
Facts about HIV and career
- With HIV you can grow old today and live like everyone else.
- With HIV you can pursue any profession.
- HIV-positive people are not sick more often.
- A transmission of HIV is impossible in everyday working life.
- People with HIV are colleagues like everyone else.