10 Reasons

why human rights should occupy the center of the global AIDS struggle

• Universal access will never be achieved without human rights.
• Gender inequality makes women more vulnerable to HIV, with women and girls now having the highest rates of infection in heavily affected countries.
• The rights and needs of children and young people are largely ignored in the response to HIV, even though they are the hardest hit in many places.
• The worst affected receive the least attention in national responses to HIV.
• Effective HIV-prevention, treatment, and care programs are under attack.
• AIDS activists risk their safety by demanding that governments provide greater access to HIV and AIDS services.
• The protection of human rights is the way to protect the public’s health.
• AIDS poses unique challenges and requires an exceptional response.
• “Rights-based” responses to HIV are practical, and they work.
• Despite much rhetoric, real action on hiv/aids and human rights remains lacking.

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