HIV, Health, Governance and Human Rights

The Doha Declaration 10 years on and its impact on access to medicines and the right to health

The adoption of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) within the framework of the World Trade Organization (WTO) dramatically altered the international landscape on intellectual property, particularly as it relates to access to medicines. One of more

The Future of AIDS Coordination

The purpose of this Discussion Paper is to raise contemporary issues that inform policy dialogue regarding the coordination and management of National AIDS Reponses. The paper considers current HIV and health policy debates as well as global funding trends, arguing that how countries govern and more

The Role of Human Rights in Responses to HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Respect for and the protection of human rights are paramount to the successful implementation of public health programmes and by consequence, human development. As the 2010 United Nations outcome document on the MDGs states, “ The respect for and promotion and protection of human rights is an more

The TRIPS Agreement and Access to ARVs

This paper highlights two possible areas of intervention for developing countries: a reassessment of policy space created within the TRIPS Agreement created negotiations at the WTO in 2005 and exploring options outside TRIPS to increase access to treatment. more

Toolkit: Scaling up HIV-Related Legal Services

The toolkit for Scaling up HIV-Related Legal Services is a resource to support governments, legal professionals and other non-government organizations to implement HIV-related legal services programmes. It includes practical guidance on needs-assessments, program design, capacity building for the more

TowardsUniversal Access: Examples of Municipal HIV Programming for Men who have Sex with Men and Transgender People in Six Asian Cities

This report describes specific examples of programme activities that seek to address HIV and promote health and rights among MSM and transgender people in six Asian cities: Bangkok, Thailand; Chengdu, China; Ho ChiMinh City, Viet Nam; Jakarta, Indonesia; Manila, the Philippines; and Yangon, more

UNAIDS Action Framework: Universal Access for MSM and Transgender People

This framework provides direction for enhanced action by the UNAIDS Secretariat and UNAIDS Cosponsors on male-to-male sex, transgender issues and HIV. Using this framework as a reference, a UN interagency working group on men who have sex with men, transgender and HIV issues will develop more more

UNDP Strategy on HIV, Health and Development

The strategy elaborates UNDP's response to address social, cultural and economic determinants of HIV and Health. UNDP has an important role in supporting health outcomes by helping countries to address the social, cultural and economic determinants of HIV and health, in partnership with UN system more

UNDP and UNAIDS Policy brief on Criminalization of HIV Transmission

UNDP and UNAIDS have developed a policy brief on criminalization of HIV Transmission. The policy brief urges governments to limit criminalization of HIV to cases of intentional transmission. It advocates for non application of criminal law to cases where there is no significant risk of more

Update on UA Now!

Update on Universal Access for Women and Girls Now! The original story was posted on December 2009. Under UA Now, UNDP is providing support to countries for addressing barriers to universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support for women and girls. more

Upscaling Community Conversations in Ethiopia

The document discusses the results of Community Conversations in terms of empowering communities at the grass roots level to engage in open discussions about HIV/AIDS and to take innovative steps to reverse the spread of the epidemic, including behavioural change. more

Using TRIPS flexibilities to improve access to HIV treatment

This paper reviews how countries can successfully use the flexibilities of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) to increase access to HIV treatment. more

WHO report on Prevention and Treatment of HIV among MSM and transgender groups

The report is an outcome of WHO's technical consultation meeting on the prevention and treatment of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among men who have sex with men and transgender groups. The meeting discussed the role that the health sector can and should play in addressing more

We Care: What You and Your Family Should Know

The objective of the We Care initiative is to stimulate reflection and discussions on the HIV/AIDS epidemic and its underlying causes, thus generating appropriate action and enhancing the capacity of UN country teams to support staff members and dependants who are affected and/or living with more

Women’s Property Rights as an AIDS Response: Emerging Efforts in South Asia

The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) conducted research in South Asia on emerging efforts to promote women's inheritance and property rights in response to AIDS. This special edition, with input from UNDP, includes a supplementary discussion on the current state of HIV in the more

You and AIDS

The Asia Pacific region's vulnerability to HIV stems from a variety of factors that are mainly rooted in extreme forms of inequality. One of them is the increasing population mobility experienced by most of the countries in the region. Evidence clearly suggests that unsafe mobility often leads more

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