UNAIDS艾滋病和人权工作组6月6日发布关于全面获得和人权的声明

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Re: UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights releases statement on universal access and human rights

Dear all,

At the High Level Meeting in 2006, world leaders reaffirmed that "the full realization of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all is an essential element in the global response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic." Yet, as over 350 civil society organizations from countries across the world have pointed out by adopting the declaration, "Human Rights and HIV/AIDS: Now More than Ever", more than 25 years into the AIDS epidemic, the "essential element" continues to receive insufficient attention in the response to HIV. Without much greater political commitment to, and implementation of, a human rights-based response to HIV, translating into appropriate programming, funding and monitoring in countries, universal access cannot be achieved.

On 6 June 2008, the UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights issued a statement to highlight the importance of much greater attention to human rights in national, international and global responses to HIV, through political commitment, funding, and implementation of programmes that both integrate human rights principles and that are specifically designed to overcome rights- based obstacles to universal access.

In its statement, the Reference Group calls for action in a number of areas: 1. setting ambitious targets and including all populations at risk in universal access target setting and scale-up 2. ensuring meaningful civil society participation 3. scaling up programmatic responses promoting human rights and gender.

The Reference Group calls upon UNAIDS, donors and national governments to recognize that universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support represents a human rights imperative. In order to be just and to be effective, all efforts to achieve universal access should be implemented in ways that protect the human rights of people, particularly in terms of their autonomy and privacy (informed consent and confidentiality), freedom from discrimination, and right to health in the form of access to prevention, care and treatment so as to avoid HIV infection, and if infected, to access and sustain treatment, and prevent the onward transmission of HIV. The political and programmatic efforts and resources devoted to the reduction of stigma, discrimination and rights- and gender-related vulnerabilities at international and national levels must be sufficient to overcome these vulnerabilities and remove the barriers that stigma, discrimination, gender inequality and other lack of human rights protection raise in the context of prevention, care and treatment.

For a copy of the full statement: http://data.unaids.org/pub/BaseDocument/2008/20080606_rghr_statement_u niversalaccess_en.pdf

Best regards,

Ralf Jurgens on behalf of the UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights

For organizational endorsements of "Human Rights and HIV/AIDS: Now More than Ever": www.soros.org/endorsehumanrights

For information about the march and rally for human rights at AIDS 2008: www.soros.org/marchforhumanrights