Confronting AIDS: human rights, law and social transformation.

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  • M Heywood
  • D Altman
چکیده

This piece developed out of discussions between the authors at the 12th World AIDS Conference, held in Geneva in 1998. In the sessions on human rights, a number of delegates from Asia and Africa experienced some difficulty understanding how they could apply the primarily legal arguments of the UN's HIV/AIDS and Human Rights: International Guidelines to local conditions.' Particularly visible was a confusion about the relevance of international law as well as the difficulty associated with "downloading" a paradigm of human rights located in a Western legal framework into non-Western societies. The piece asserts the enormous importance of human rights issues to HIV prevention and care. It looks fleetingly

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Health and human rights

دوره 5 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2000