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Spring 2010 - HIV/AIDS & the Rule of Law
Introduction
Introduction: Why Rights, Why Here, and Why Now?The nexus between human rights and HIV/AIDS is much the same today as it was in 2004 when this magazine last focused on the issue. And, yet, every day brings new challenges to the forefront as lawyers and their allies strive to address the continuing legacy of the virus. In the pages that follow, we hope to shine a light on the human rights issues at home and around the globe that continue to fuel this epidemic.
Featured Articles
Rights Here, Right Now
The theme Rights Here, Right Now underscores the sobering reality that without more focused attention to human rights, the goal of universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care, and support is unattainable.
Cross-Disciplinary Collaborations as Tools to Protect the Right to Health
Advocating for and protecting human rights is linked to promoting and protecting health, and the promotion of human rights is a fundamental tenet of effectively addressing HIV/AIDS.
Universal Access and Human Rights For Women and Girls, Too
Culture, history, and laws can combine to deny women and girls equal access to HIV prevention and care.
Sex Trafficking and HIV/AIDS: A Deadly Junction for Women and Girls
The nexus of the global epidemics of sex trafficking and HIV/AIDS primarily manifests in the lives of women and girls. This in-tersection exists in sex trafficking victims’ increased vulnerability to HIV infection, the proliferation of HIV infection through sex trafficking, and the perceived and actual clashes between HIV and sex trafficking prevention efforts.
Human Rights and HIV: Men Who Have Sex with Men
Men who have sex with men face unique, significant, and widespread human rights challenges with regard to HIV/AIDS.
Faith-Based Organizations and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic
Among a host of controversial issues that envelop HIV/AIDS is the role religion plays in combating and responding to the dis-ease.
Ex-Offenders' Right to Health: HIV/AIDS and Reentry
The prevalence of communicable and chronic diseases among prisoners during incarceration and upon release demonstrates the severity and extent of unmet health-care needs—especially for those with HIV/AIDS.
Rapid-Onset Natural Disasters and HIV: "Collateral Mortality"
Embedded in those graphic images of death and destruction and of those trying to save lives in the immediate aftermath of a rapid-onset natural disaster is the unseen and seldom-discussed “collateral mortality” that accompanies such emergencies—loss of continuity in care for those living with HIV.
American Cities Lead the Way: HIV Testing Is for Everyone
Screening for HIV is necessary to detect the presence of the virus and to determine whether transmission/infection has occurred and whether and when to start treatment.
Whose Business Is It?
Electronic medical records clearly facilitate the aggregation of massive amounts of data about people’s experiences with particular genetic markers, diseases, medications, and other treatments.
Human Rights Hero: Ronald V. Dellums
After establishing himself as a virtual icon within the world of American politics, Ronald V. Dellums left that world and entered the battle to combat HIV and AIDS.
