{"id":158476,"date":"2016-03-02T15:49:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T10:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=158476"},"modified":"2016-03-02T16:49:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T11:19:49","slug":"education-ministry-to-draw-up-guideline-to-prevent-hiv-and-other-discriminations-at-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/education-ministry-to-draw-up-guideline-to-prevent-hiv-and-other-discriminations-at-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Ministry To Draw Up Guideline To Prevent HIV And Other Discriminations At Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Education is looking at introducing a guideline in an effort to prevent students from been discriminated, following the recent incident where a six year old boy was refused admission to the Sambodi Primary School in Kuliyapitiya as he was suspected to be HIV positive.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_158477\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/education-ministry-to-draw-up-guideline-to-prevent-hiv-and-other-discriminations-at-schools\/akila-viraj-kariyawasam\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-158477\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158477\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-158477\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Akila-Viraj-Kariyawasam-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Education Minister - Akila Viraj Kariyawasam\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Akila-Viraj-Kariyawasam-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Akila-Viraj-Kariyawasam-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-158477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Education Minister &#8211; Akila Viraj Kariyawasam<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to the Secretary to the Ministry of Education W. M. Bandusena at present there is no guideline issued by the authorities to deal with such issues, hence the ministry is looking at developing a guideline to deal with similar situations in the future.<\/p>\n<p>However, after authorities intervened and the child was granted admission, on February 29, parents of some 179 students studying in the school removed their children from the school in protest for granting admission to the six year old child.<\/p>\n<p>The child\u2019s mother, Chandani Soysa said that there had been rumours saying that her husband died from HIV\/AIDS, and hence the child had also contracted it. She however denied the rumours and said her husband died from a kidney failure.<\/p>\n<p>A decision is to be taken as to whether to let the child continue schooling at Sambodi Primary School this week, due to the protests from other parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":158477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Education Ministry To Draw Up Guideline To Prevent HIV And Other Discriminations At Schools - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/education-ministry-to-draw-up-guideline-to-prevent-hiv-and-other-discriminations-at-schools\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Education Ministry To Draw Up Guideline To Prevent HIV And Other Discriminations At Schools - 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