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Case # 3: Regaining a lost job
A 30 year old female client visited the Hanoi legal clinic June 16, 2009. She and her husband are HIV positive and do not have any children. She was a worker in a company in Hanoi but was fired from her job by the Director of this company due to her HIV status. She could not find any other job and became a destitute, with no money for housing. She learned about the legal clinic through a peer counselor and came to ask for help in regaining her job in this company.
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Case # 7: Resource Need Model (RNM) training
HPI conducted the RNM training on June 23-25, 2009 in collaboration with FHI and UNAIDS. PACs’ delegates from 10 different provinces were invited to participate in the training held in Cat Ba, Hai Phong.
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Case # 2: Obtaining a social pension to operate small business
A 45 year old woman visited the Hanoi legal clinic on 22 June, 2009. Her husband had died of AIDS. She was jobless and sick for a long time. She is living with three children in very poor conditions. She learned about the legal clinic through a peer counselor. She came to ask for help to receive a social pension from the government to be able to run a small business.
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Case # 4:
A 30 years old female client visited the legal clinic in Hanoi on 3rd July 2009. She got married and HIV+ without any opportunistic infections. Also, she was a kindergarten teacher, but was shifted to work as an administrative assistant when the principal learned of her HIV status. One day, the teacher saw a TV forum on HIV/AIDS and discovered that there is a legal clinic on HIV/AIDS in Hanoi that could assist her problem.
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Case # 5:
Client QN044 (male and married) came to the Quang Ninh legal clinic on December 23, 2008, to have a consultation with the lawyer regarding Voluntary Health Insurance. Previously, he thought that a HIV+ person was not qualified for the health insurance; therefore, he did not purchase it. He has been sick and spent a lot of money for in-patient treatment with his low income. This situation urged him to seek a Voluntary Health Insurance.
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Case # 6:
During the night on 27 December 2008, one client came to X hospital due to stomachache. After 2 hours of waiting for the blood test, he was told by a medical staf that he is infected with HIV. The client was shocked when he heard the news as he was not expecting this diagnosis.
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Case # 1: Legal Clinics Help HIV+ Children Access Education
Six-year old Binh lives with his mother and older brother in a small community in a northern province of Vietnam. His father died of AIDS and his family is stigmatized especially because he and his mother are both HIV+.
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