France on Thursday lifted a ban on embalming the bodies of HIV-positive people, ending three decades of discrimination in death against people infected with the AIDS virus. Since 1986, the process of embalming bodies to delay their decomposition - a custom used in about one in three deaths in France - has been denied to people with HIV/AIDS over concerns about transmission of the disease.
Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2017
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