Eliminating stigma and discrimination

Human rights and HIV

• International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights (Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights/UNAIDS, 2006)
• HIV/AIDS and Human Rights: Young People in Action (UNAIDS, UNESCO)

Stigma and discrimination

• Non-discrimination in HIV responses (UNAIDS, 2010)
• Reducing HIV Stigma and Discrimination: a critical part of national AIDS programmes (UNAIDS, 2007)
• Protocol for the identification of discrimination against people living with HIV (UNAIDS, 2000) 
• HIV-related Stigma, Discrimination and Human Rights Violations: Case studies of successful programmes (UNAIDS, 2005)

HIV and the law

• UNAIDS recommendations for alternative language to some problematic articles in the N'Djamena legislation on HIV/AIDS, 2004 (UNAIDS, 2008) 
• Guidance note: Addressing HIV-related law at national level (UNAIDS, 2008)
• A handbook for parliamentarians: Taking action against HIV (UNAIDS/IPU/UNDP, 2007)
• Legal Aspects of HIV/AIDS - A Guide for Legal and Policy Reform (World Bank, 2007)
• Courting Rights: Case Studies in Litigating the Human Rights of People Living with HIV (UNAIDS/Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, 2006)

Criminalization of HIV transmission

• UNAIDS/UNDP Policy brief: Criminalization of HIV transmission (2008)
• International consultation on the criminalization of HIV transmission   (UNAIDS/UNDP, 2007)
• Criminal Law, Public Health and HIV Transmission (UNAIDS, 2002)

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

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.

• Technical guidance note for Global Fund HIV proposals (UNAIDS/WHO, 2010)

Country fact sheets

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

Cosponsor and partners

• UNDP HIV, gender, human rights, sexual diversity
• Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
• UN Plus

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.”