Human Rights
Welcome to the Human Rights section.
Policy Brief: Crimininalisation of HIV Transmission in southern Africa: Fueling the HIV epidemic, SAfAIDS, 2009
Since the advent of HIV, there has been intense debate on what constitutes the most effective HIV prevention approach that governments should adopt. Striking a balance between public health and human rights approaches to addressing HIV have often been at the centre of such debates... Legislators in some countries have called for HIV-specific criminal laws as a means of protecting women from HIV infection, but the irony is that sometimes such laws may result in women being disproportionately prosecuted, since due to antenatal testing, women are more likely to be tested first.
HIV/AIDS & Human Rights in southern Africa 2009, AIDS & Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA)
The Report is a guide to HIV/AIDS and human rights in the Southern African region. It seeks to:
- Describe the extent to which SADC countries have used and implemented selected guidelines from the International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights
- Describe good legal, policy and human rights practices in relation to HIV and AIDS
- Outline key human rights challenges facing PLHIV in the SADC region.
Mainstreaming Human Rights into HIV and AIDS Programming: Brochure, SAfAIDS
The purpose of the brochure is to:
* Increase an understanding and appreciation of the concept of human rights in the context of HIV and AIDS
* Highlight the significance of human rights approaches in HIV and AIDS related efforts
* Share methods towards ensuring human rights approaches in HIV and AIDS programming
* Share successful experiences of addressing HIV and AIDS from a human rights perspective
The Reality of HIV and AIDS Related Stigma and Discrimination in Southern Africa
Stigma has prehistoric roots. In ancient Greece, slaves or criminals would be branded or physically masked to show that they were outcasts. This is where the term 'stigma' originated. Stigma involves negative thoughts or prejudices about people from particular groups or with certain characteristics. Self-stigma, involving feelings of shame, guilt and fear among infected persons, is the basis of all forms of stigma. Stigma and discrimination associated with HIV and AIDS are great barriers to preventing further infections and providing adequate care, support and treatment, and are found in every country and region of the world. Much of the stigma, faced by People Living With HIV and AIDS (PLWHA), builds on existing prejudices related to race, gender, socio-economic status, culture and other similar categories in society.
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
The States Parties to this Protocol,
CONSIDERING that Article 66 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' ights provides for special protocols or agreements, if necessary, to supplement the provisions of the African Charter, and that the Assembly of eads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity meeting in its Thirty-first Ordinary Session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in June 995, endorsed by resolution AHG/Res.240 (XXXI) the recommendation of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights to elaborate a protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa;
Human Rights and HIV in Zimbabwe
Human Rights Watch, July 2006. No bright future: government failures, human rights abuses and squandered progress in the fight against AIDS in Zimbabwe.
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