Advancing human rights: responding to HIV

This paper presents results from a survey undertaken by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance on human rights and HIV responses.

Key findings of the survey are:

• human rights are a key component of effective HIV responses.
• emphasis needs to be put on making human rights a reality in order to strengthen the efforts of service providers.
• there is widespread discrimination against people living with HIV, gender inequality and gender based discrimination as well as criminalisation of same sex between men, sex work and injecting drug use.
  
• there are structural and organisational challenges in doing human rights work.

• build a stronger shared understanding of what a human rights approach means.
• focus on why, what and how.
• build the skills and capacity of partners in human rights-specific programming.
• promote integrated human rights and legal empowerment approaches to access to justice.
• increase advocacy work focused on holding duty bearers to account.