ACLU Joins Workplace Fight

The American Civil Liberties Union reiterated in January that the vast majority of HIV-positive health care workers do not pose any health risk on the job. The organization filed a friend-of-the-court brief in an HIV discrimination case in which Colorado-based Bonfils Memorial Blood Center is charged with illegally firing a phlebotomist when he revealed that he is HIV-positive. 'Even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations show that HIV-positive phlebotomists are no risk to blood donors,' says Mark Silverstein, legal director of the ACLU of Colorado.