Human rights

Statement of the UNAIDS Secretariat to the 4th Session of the Human Rights Council

28 March 2007

Geneva, 28 March 2007: Statement by the UNAIDS Secretariat to the 4th Session of the Human Rights Council on the importance of the Council’s engagement on HIV and human rights in the push towards universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.

Cellulose sulfate microbicide trial stopped

31 January 2007

A Phase III study of the candidate

UNAIDS expresses concern over Libyan trial decision relating to the alleged transmission of HIV by health care professionals

20 December 2006

The Joint United Nations Programme

UNAIDS welcomes proposal to lift short term travel restriction to United States for people living with HIV.

08 December 2006

The Joint United Nations Programme

Stop violence against women : halt the spread of AIDS

10 December 2004

Today is Human Rights Day, the 56th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the last of this year’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence. It is also a day on which intolerable numbers of women will suffer violent assaults, and on which many will be infected with HIV.

UNAIDS expresses sadness at death of human rights activist

13 October 2004

UNAIDS acknowledges with tremendous sense of loss the tragic news of the sudden death of Paulo Longo, Coordinator of the Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) in Brazil and human rights activist.

UNAIDS condemns killing of gay rights activist

05 October 2004

UNAIDS is deeply shocked at the recent killing of FannyAnn Eddy, a leading pan-African gay rights activist and founder of the Sierra Leone Lesbian and Gay Association (SLLAGA).

HIV/AIDS treatment, microbicide and vaccine advocates release plan of action and joint statement of commitment

12 July 2004

AIDS activists from around the world, representing different movements, today called for concerted action aimed at ramping up HIV/AIDS health care services in low and middle-income countries.

UNAIDS statement to the 60th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Agenda Item 12: Integration of the human rights of women and the gender perspective

05 April 2004

Discrimination against women, both legal and de facto, renders them disproportionately vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. Women's subordination in the family and in public life is one of the root causes of the rapidly increasing rate of infection among women. Systematic discrimination based on gender also impairs women's ability to deal with the consequences of their own infection and/or infection in the family, in social, economic and personal terms.

UNAIDS statement to the 60th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Agenda item 10: Economic, social and cultural rights

30 March 2004

The HIV/AIDS epidemic poses serious human rights challenges - for example, unequal access to HIV/AIDS-related treatments remains a global reality. If countries are seriously committed to protecting the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, then this inequality must be addressed. The problem is urgent. In poor countries, millions of people with HIV/AIDS need antiretroviral treatment immediately and very few of these are on antiretroviral treatment. Without accelerated prevention and treatment the AIDS epidemic will continue destroying communities, health care systems and economies, placing a shadow upon the future of entire countries.