Human Rights in the Global Response to HIV: Findings From the 2008 United Nations General Assembly Special Session Reports (original) (raw)
2009, JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
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More than 35 years since the HIV/AIDS pandemic began, HIV continues to cause almost two million new infections every year, and therefore the "end of AIDS" by 2030 remains elusive. Violation of human rights still fuel high rates of recent infections among key populations and a generalized epidemic in much of Sub-Saharan Africa. Meanwhile, as political shifts worldwide threaten not only HIV funding but also progress toward the globalization of human rights, civil society mobilization and advocacy founded firmly on human rights principles have a more vital role to play than ever. Encouragingly, there are numerous samples of successful integration of human rights-based approaches into HIV prevention and treatment initiatives, and evidence increasingly demonstrates that norms enshrining the respect, protection, and full-fillment of human rights can translate into improved public health. This essay will succinctly trace the historic emergence of human rights as a difficulty at the centre of the HIV/AIDS response; it'll then provide samples of progress and setbacks in recent years and consider the potential for rights promotion to deal with the structural drivers of HIV. Finally, it'll consider how the primacy of human rights in HIV/AIDS has affected other fields of worldwide health and can highlight the continuing imperative to figure with civil society to safeguard and promote human rights to scale back the burden of HIV/AIDS.
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