Citizenship and rights
The role of civil society in the HIV and AIDS movement; children’s rights; human rights; stigma and discrimination; sexual and reproductive health and rights; legality and criminalisation.
Latest Documents
- The legal environment has potential to better the lives of HIV-positive people
- J. Levine / Global Commission on HIV and the Law, 2012
- 34 million people are living with HIV, 7,400 are newly infected daily and 1.8 million died in 2010 alone. This document argues that the legal environment (laws, enforcement and justice systems) has immense potential to better the live...
- Successful approach to tackling HIV stigma and discrimination in Mexico has been adapted for El Salvador
- International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2012
- The Vida Digna (Life with Dignity) programme is one of the first in Central America to address the high levels of stigma, discrimination and even violence faced by key populations. In Central America, stigma and discriminat...
- Legal frameworks affecting PLHIV in the Caribbean
- Caribbean Community Secretariat, 2010
- This publication, commissioned by CARICOM, is a desk review report of existing legislative frameworks affecting people living with HIV (PLHIV) and their families in eleven countries in the Caribbean. The study highli...
- Human rights abuses, vulnerability to HIV infection, and access to services
- Ralf Jürgens; Joanne Csete; Stefan Baral / The Lancet, 2010
- This paper reviews evidence from more than 900 studies and reports on the link between human rights abuses experienced by people who use drugs and vulnerability to HIV infection and access to services. Key findings of the s...
- Practical action to challenge HIV and TB stigma and discrimination
- K. Ross; S. Clay; S. Belemu / International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2009
- This toolkit, developed in response to the need to address TB stigma especially where TB and HIV co-infection rates are high, contains a range of participatory games, exercises and picture tools to help address TB stigma, suitable for...
- How can organisations ensure their SHRH interventions are effective?
- J. Leerlooijer; et al. / World Population Fund, 2009
- Worldwide, extensive experience, evidence and information is available showing what works and what does not when implementing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). This tool attempts to document the most importance evidenc...
- A human rights based approach to promoting HIV prevention and treatment
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2009
- This review outlines programs in Central America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia that are designed to change social norms related to entrenched gender roles. It explains the methodologies each program employed to achie...
- How does HIV and AIDS care and prevention impact on sex work projects?
- C. Overs / Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers, 2008
- Many HIV agencies and civil society groups are considering the impact of new prevention and care methods and planning to incorporate them into their programs and policies. Large organisations have staff to work on this but smaller one...
- Improving responses to HIV and AIDS in the workplace
- Lotte Ghielen / STOP AIDS NOW!, 2009
- For a number of years, STOP AIDS NOW! and its partners have been investing in stimulating workplace responses among civil society organisations (CSOs) to HIV and AIDS. This report, published by STOP AIDS NOW!, summarises the lessons l...
- Health and human rights legal framework for law on drug use and HIV/AIDS
- Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, 2009
- Many countries with injection-driven HIV and AIDS epidemics continue to emphasise criminal enforcement of drug laws over public health approaches, thereby missing or even hindering effective responses to HIV and AIDS. This online reso...
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