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Now
more than ever - Human rights and HIV/AIDS
Ralf Jürgens and Jonathan Cohen, Open Society Institute
(OSI)
September 2007
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/health/focus/law/articles_publications/publications/human_20071017/
nowmore_20070901.pdf (direct link to 16 page PDF file)
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Universal access
will never be achieved without human rights.
In 2006, world
leaders committed "to pursuing all necessary effort towards
the goal of universal access to comprehensive prevention programs,
treatment, care and support by 2010." Yet many of those most
in need of HIV services are still the least likely to receive them:
- Women and
girls face widespread discrimination and gender-based violence,
including within marriage, that fuel their HIV risk and impede
their access to information and services.
- Children
and youth lack unfettered access to HIV information, sexual and
life-skills education, and pediatric formulations of HIV medicines.
- Criminalized
populations, such as men who have sex with men, people who use
drugs, and sex workers, are driven from HIV services by discrimination
and violence, often at the hands of police officers and judges
charged with enforcing sodomy, narcotics, and prostitution laws.
In every regional
and country consultation on universal access, obstacles such as
these have been cited as major barriers to achieving the goal of
universal access. Yet in national responses to HIV and AIDS, hardly
any political commitment, funding, or programming is dedicated to
overcoming them.
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