AIDS Healthcare Foundation | Hershey School reverses blacklist, admits HIV positive student; “Mortal blow against AIDS stigma and discrimination,” says AHF

AIDS Healthcare Foundation | Hershey School reverses blacklist, admits HIV positive student; “Mortal blow against AIDS stigma and discrimination,” says AHF:

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06 Aug 2012 ⋅ by AHF ⋅ in Press Release, Top Stories ⋅ 0 Comments

Following months of protests and actions, including a boycott of the candy giant, AIDS advocates congratulate Hershey and the Hershey school for reversing its illegal HIV/AIDS discrimination

WASHINGTON (August 6, 2012) Advocates from AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) today cheered the news that the Hershey Company-funded Milton Hershey School has announced that it will reverse course and now allow an HIV positive student who was previously denied admission to the prestigious school for low income students admission to the school this fall. According to theAssociated Press, the school for low income and socially disadvantaged students says it will now,“… treat HIV-positive applicants the same as all others and is offering admission to a previously