Draft Legislation on HIV/AIDS - Abstracts of Background Papers

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Dear Friends,

This is in order to update you on the process undertaken by us at the behest of

NACO to draft a legislation on HIV/AIDS for India. As we had announced some

months ago, we began this process by conducting extensive research on various

issues that may require coverage by such a legislation. This research has led to

the drafting of Background Papers on these issues, which are in the stages of

finalisation.

As each Background Paper runs into several pages, we have condensed the essence

contained in them in the form of Abstracts. These are now available on our

website www.lawyerscollective.org. We have covered 19 topics that were vital to

examine before drafting the legislation (which is presently underway and will

also be available on the website shortly).

We do hope that you will visit our website and read these Abstracts. We feel

that it is important for all those who wish to be involved in influencing the

draft legislation and those who participate in the consultations (whether

through actual meetings or by sending your inputs and feedback in writing) to

read the Abstracts in order to inform themselves of the basis for the draft

legislation. Details of the Consultation Process shall also be put up shortly.

The topics covered in the Abstracts are Access to Treatment, Blood, Children,

Confidentiality, Consent, Criminal Law & the Transmission of HIV/AIDS,

Discrimination, Injecting Drug Users, Insurance, Media, Men who have Sex with

Men, Mother to Child Transmission, Prisoners, Quacks, Research I: Key Issues in

HIV/AIDS Research, Research II: Regulation and Ethics in India & Developing

Countries, Sex Work, Sexual Violence and Women.

With regards,

Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit

E-mail: <aidslaw@...>