Law regulation providing medical care for HIV-infected children in secondary schools of Ukraine

Abstract

Introduction: Children's health is a priority responsibility of the state, as defined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Constitution of Ukraine and a number of laws and regulations. That is why every school should regulate medical centers. Particularly acute issue of the rights of HIV- infected children in the process of realization of the right to education. Purpose and Objectives: To reveal the features of health care pupils in secondary schools; isolate the problematic issue of rights of Health HIV - infected children in secondary schools in Ukraine. Materials and Methods: The analysis includes the "Basic Laws of Ukraine on Health", Law "On General Secondary Education", "On Protection of Childhood", "Instructions on how to provide medical and social care for HIV- infected children". In the course of our study the epistemological, comparative legal, statistical, forecasting, sociological methods have been applied. Results: There are two ways of opening medical clinics in schools alone - through licensing or through the initial establishment of public health - clinics. Since the complex process of obtaining a license, most schools go through an agreement with the clinic. Thus the results of our survey showed an inadequate provision of medical care at school. In particular, the majority of pupils surveyed (85%) say that schools are provided with medicines, but along with that there are other problems: first of all, schools should run a clinic every day from 8:30 to 16:00 hours, rather than two - three o'clock twice a week (35%). In addition, 10% of the pupils do not even know where the school clinic is. After analyzing the features of the right to the protection of the health of HIV - infected children in the schools, we found a number of problems which are not addressed in Ukrainian legislation. In Ukraine, the most common is the disclosure of information on the status of HIV - infected child is not regulated right to store information on the diagnosis by the staff of the school. Conclusions: Thus, analyzing the current legislation which regulates the provision of medical care to children in secondary schools and regulates the most important issues in the protection of the rights of HIV -infected children, we can conclude that in general, it meets international standards. However, some areas of relationships, for example, education and training of HIV - infected children in general medical care of minors is unsolved and require further development.