HIV, Health, Governance and Human Rights

Know Your Universal Rights - The Human Rights Cards

Respect for human rights is critical to preventing the spread of HIV, and reducing AIDS-related stigma and discrimination. The Human Rights cards provide a short and concise overview of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and what it means within the context of AIDS. The cards are currently more

Law, Ethics and HIV-AIDS South Asia

A study of the legal and social environment of the epidemic in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka more

Leadership Development Programme Strategy Note

The document outlines the rationale and strategy behind the UNDP's Leadership Development Programme (LDP). The LDP was an integral part of the UNDP’s Leadership for Results programme, is based on a unique methodology that helps build partnerships, overcome institutional inertia, generate more

Legal environments, human rights and HIV responses among men who have sex with men and transgender people in Asia and the Pacific: An agenda for action

This report documents how both punitive and protective laws, policies and practices impact comprehensive HIV responses. To support the findings and recommendations, the report maps out recent judicial, legislative and policy developments and community responses at the global, regional and national more

Legal protections against HIV-related human rights violations

This report is a direct follow-up to Global Commission on HIV and the Law: Risks, Rights and Health (July 2012) and the Asia-Pacific Regional Dialogue of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law convened in Bangkok in February 2011. This study identifies the laws that states of Asia and the Pacific more

Lost in Transition: Transgender People, Rights and HIV Vulnerability in the Asia-Pacific Region

The ‘Lost in Transition: Transgender People, Rights and HIV Vulnerability in the Asia-Pacific Region’ report aims to provide a research and strategic information framework. It will guide governments, civil society, donors and key stakeholders to design and produce relevant research as part of more

Men and the HIV Epidemic

This paper examines what it is about gender relations and dynamics, and dominant versions of masculinity in particular, that enhances risk and hinders men from protecting themselves and their partners from HIV infection. more

Mexico City Ministerial Declaration: "Educating to Prevent"

The Mexico City Ministerial Declaration “Educating to Prevent,” is a strategic tool to strengthen HIV prevention efforts in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) by ensuring access to quality, comprehensive sexuality education and sexual and reproductive health services. more

Migration Gone Wrong: Linkages Between Trafficking and HIV (India)

This report is the result of a six-month study on the links between HIV and trafficking. It provides information for a more effective policy debate, both from the view point of stopping trafficking and also in assuring the human rights of the trafficked people, and to stimulate further research more

Migration and HIV in South Asia

The study elaborates the impact of migration and HIV/AIDS at individuals, families and communities levels in South Asian countries. It puts forward recommendations to mitigate the challenges of migration and HIV/AIDS. more

Migration, Mobility and HIV: A rapid Assessment of risks and vulnerabilities in the Pacific

The report "Migration, Mobility and HIV: A rapid Assessment of risks and vulnerabilities in the Pacific" provides a rapid assessment of migration and mobility as key influences on the distribution and spread of HIV in the Pacific. The report is expected to contribute to the more

Mobility, Migration and HIV Vulnerability in Arab States Region

This report builds directly on the 2010 UNAIDS report, Mobility, Migration and HIV Vulnerability of Populations along the Ports of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden: Synthesis, desk review and exploratory studies. The report provides a literature review and updated situational analysis of the HIV more

Priority HIV Interventions for MSM and Transgender People

The HIV epidemic among MSM and transgender persons is escalating globally, and currently represents a major source of new infections in many countries in Asia and the Pacific. This document was developed to articulate the contribution that the health sector could provide to respond to the HIV more

Remuneration Guidelines for Non-Voluntary Use of a Patent

This is a joint study conducted by WHO and UNDP. It recommends different reasonable and appropriate methods of setting remuneration and system of royalty guidelines. more

Responses to Trafficking and HIV in South Asia

This publication is compilation of innovative and path-breaking initiatives led by a few civil society partners in responding to the complex nexus of vulnerabilities of women and children in South Asia. more

Secret Lives, Other Voices

This report outlines the findings of the first research study to be conducted on men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgenders (TG) in Fiji since AIDS Task Force of Fiji (ATFF) conducted its last study in 1998. Although not necessarily representative of all MSM and TG in Fiji, the data more

Sex Work and the Law in Asia and the Pacific

The report is intended to provide an evidence-base for: policy makers working in government, regional and multilateral organizations; parliamentarians; members of the judiciary; civil society organizations; donor agencies; and sex workers and their organizations engaged in advocacy to improve the more

Sex, Rights, and the Law in a World with AIDS

This report is an outcome of the meeting on Sex, Rights and the Law in a World with AIDS held in Mexico. The meeting explored the social and structural barriers to the successful prevention of sexually transmitted HIV and to effective, gender-transformative and human rights-based approaches to HIV more

Supporting Community Reponses to HIV among Men who have Sex with Men

The aim of this report is to document common experiences and information about funding, technical support, interventions, and relationships of United Nations Working Group on men who have sex with men (UNWG/MSM) with CBOs working on MSM issues. more

Supporting HIV Responses in Africa through International Human Rights Framework

This flip chart is part of a series of tools developed by the UNDP to improve the implementation of human rights norms in the context of HIV in Eastern and Southern Africa. It is designed for use by government officials, parliamentarians, judiciary members, lawyers, CSOs, people living with HIV, more

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