UN launches commission on HIV to look at discrimination and legal barriers to

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UN launches commission on HIV to look at discrimination and legal barriers to

treatment

BMJ 2010;340:c3507

Zarocostas

Geneva

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), backed by UNAIDS (the joint UN

programme on HIV and AIDS), has launched an expert body to examine

discriminatory laws, regulations, and social norms that hinder national

responses and impede access to treatment for people with HIV, in particular

those from vulnerable groups.

" In many places social and legal challenges to human rights are undermining

efforts at achieving universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and

support, " said the UNDP's administrator, Helen , at the launch of the

Global Commission on HIV and the Law in Geneva on 24 June.

Members of the commission include a former president of Brazil,

Cardoso; the director of the advocacy group AIDS Free World, ; the

US Congresswoman Barbara Lee; Miriam Were, a public health advocate from Kenya;

and Justice Edwin Cameron of South Africa.

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