HUMAN RIGHTS ARE ESSENTIAL TO ADDRESS THE EPIDEMIC
I. DD.HH. VIOLATIONS OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV / AIDS
Around the world, people living with HIV remain subject to serious and different ways of stigmatization and discrimination . They risk losing their jobs , their communities are isolated and denied equal access to goods and services needed to enforce their rights, and even protection law. It i nadecuado the access to medical care and treatment for vast majority of people living with HIV .
II. HIV, AIDS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Human rights are fundamental to addressing the HIV epidemic AIDS. The abuses against them can affect individual and public health .
On the one hand, human rights violations reinforce the epidemic by making people more vulnerable to infection. Furthermore, the human rights violations appear once contracted the infection and people living with HIV and AIDS may be subjected to various forms of discrimination and abuse , including harassment, arrest arbitrary and torture.
The discriminatory policies and practices may give rise to deny people access to information, support and services necessary to make informed decisions and reduce their vulnerability and the risk of infection.
All persons, including those living with HIV, we are entitled to enjoy the highest attainable standard of health. This right includes medical care and the essential conditions for good health as drinking water, adequate food, sanitation and shelter. includes access to quality health services, affordable and culturally acceptable and to health-related information . As with all other rights, nondiscrimination occupies the central place of the "right to health" , as the right to participate in decision making on health issues.
Amnesty International believes that respect, protection and realization of all human rights of all persons is indispensable for reducing rates of HIV, increase access to appropriate care and treatment, and reduce the impact of the epidemic , including discrimination and violence .
Amnesty defends the human rights of people living with HIV and AIDS :
- Performing work campaign to ensure the physical integrity and security of people living with HIV and AIDS .
- Working for the detainees living with HIV and AIDS have access to health care and information .
- Working to protect people at risk of HIV infection as a result of discrimination or violence (including sexual violence ).
- Performing work campaign on the right to health , which provides, inter alia, available to people living with HIV medical services, accessible, acceptable and quality.
Amnesty is campaigning on a wide range of rights related to health , from opposition to the death penalty to the denial of medical care, through water rights safe and adequate nutrition.
Amnesty International supports prevention initiatives:
- Working to spread information and human rights standards relevant in prevention and treatment of HIV and AIDS.
- Performing campaigning to protect activists and educators working in the field of HIV and AIDS who have been threatened by governments or private individuals because of their work.
- Performing work campaign to eliminate violence against women , calling attention to the impact of gender having this violence to spread HIV .
- Performing campaigning for the rights of uprooted people as victims of trafficking , who are at particular risk of violence and infected by HIV .
Another example: Professional Network Health AI responds to cases of concern through various campaign activities : street protests , vigils, letter-writing campaigns, human rights education, awareness-raising concerts, direct capture support, targeted appeals, petitions by e-mail and other online activities, partnerships with local activist groups, community activities and collaboration with student groups .
Among members of this network are : doctors, dentists, nurses, physiotherapists, psychologists, and medical students . These groups work together to give strength to the mission of Amnesty International oppose the serious human rights violations and hold accountable those responsible. Health professionals have participated in global campaigns like the Campaign to Combat Violence against Women, and continues in the new global campaign on poverty and human rights' DEMANDS DIGNITY. "
IV. WHAT DO YOU DO IN FRONT OF THE HIV / AIDS? ACT!
If your government does not assume its responsibility to ensure access for people living with HIV and AIDS to the entire range of human rights, write to their representatives, urging them to fulfill the obligations national and international.
In its Programme on HIV, AIDS and human rights , Amnesty International calls on governments :
1. meet the international commitment to health law .
2. eliminate financial constraints that inhibit HIV and AIDS .
3. Ensure access to treatment.
4. Ensure access to information .
5. ensure sexual and reproductive rights .
6. safeguard the rights of women and end violence against women.
7. ensure the participation of people living with HIV and AIDS .
8. equitably share the benefits of scientific progress .
9. Afirmar el derecho a la intimidad y la confidencialidad .
10. Asegurar el seguimiento y evaluación de soluciones de derechos humanos basadas en pruebas .
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