Man with HIV awarded damages after being denied hospital job

A court on Tuesday ordered a hospital operator in northern Japan to pay 1.65 million yen ($15,300) damages to a man, after it refused to employ him last year for failing to report his HIV infection.The Sapporo District Court ruled the Hokkaido man, in his 30s, did not need to report the infection, and that the decision by the social welfare corporation based in the city was illegal."The risk of infection (to others) is marginal to the point it can be ignored, and there was no need for the man to report his infection," said Presiding Judge Takaaki Muto in handing down the ruling.According to…READ FULL ARTICLE