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You and AIDS

December 5, 2015

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 people to situations that make them vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. Unsafe mobility also leads to trafficking in humans, particularly women and children. This phenomenon has a direct correlation with HIV as the conditions under which women and children are trafficked are conducive to the transmission of HIV. The cover story of this edition of YouandAIDS seeks to explore the link between trafficking and HIV in detail and argues for responses that respect the rights of people to move in search of livelihoods and protect them from the traps that lie ahead.