Eliminating stigma and discrimination

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  • Eliminate stigma and discrimination against people living with and affected by HIV through promotion of laws and policies that ensure the full realization of all human rights and fundamental freedoms.

 

Making the law work for the HIV response: Country snapshot

This poster provides a country by country snapshot of protective and punitive laws relating to HIV and the AIDS response. Download 

Global Commission on HIV and the law

This Commission’s goal is to develop actionable, evidence-informed and human rights-based recommendations supporting national legal environments that enable effective HIV responses and realize the human rights of those living with and affected by HIV. Visit web site

Asian Women

Human rights programming

Human rights is also a programmatic response. UNAIDS promotes 7 key programmes: stigma reduction, legal aid, law reform, legal/human rights literacy, human rights sensitization of police, human rights training of health care workers, reduction of harmful gender norms and violence against women.

Country fact sheets

Explore country progress on removing punitive laws, policies, practices, stigma and discrimination. More

Getting to Zero

UNAIDS Strategy 2011-2015

Guided by the UNAIDS Strategy 2011–2015 —the ten Cosponsors and the UNAIDS Secretariat are united in working towards the vision of “Zero new infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS-related deaths.”

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09 December 2011

UNAIDS calls for greater leadership in addressing human rights violations in the AIDS response. More

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