Privacy and Confidentiality

In the context of the HIV epidemic, effective confidentiality protection of HIV positive people is of central importance. In many cases, it is an essential first step in achieving an open acknowledgement of the risk of infection, encouraging voluntary testing and counseling, and reducing the discrimination experienced by PLWHA.

In India there are provisions that protect confidentiality in certain specific relationships (e.g. lawyer and client, husband and wife). All other relationships including that between a doctor and a patient are governed by common law.