HIV/Aids patients can now rely on equality law

Loyiso Lindani recalled the indignity of having to collect her medication from an Eastern Cape clinic in a publicly exposed area designated for HIV-positive patients. She is one of many HIV-positive people who had to suffer such discrimination. But things are about to change - even though it has taken the government more than a decade to add those living with HIV/Aids to the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act.