- Author
- UNAIDS - The United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS
- Title
- Handbook for Legislators on HIV/AIDS, Law and Human Rights: Action to Combat HIV/AIDS in View of its Devastating Human, Economic and Social Impact
- In
- UNAIDS Best Practice Collection
- Description of Work
- UNAIDS 99.48E
- Imprint
- UNAIDS - The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS/International Parliamentary Union, Geneva, November 1999, 153 pp
- Description
Principal author: Helen Watchirs.
Reproduced with the kind permission of UNAIDS.- Abstract
"The purpose of this Handbook is to assist parliamentarians and other elected officials in promulgating and enacting effective legislation and undertaking appropriate law reform in the fight against AIDS. Whether it be constitutional amendments to prohibit discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS or against those most vulnerable to infection, legislation to ensure the rights of school children to be educated on how to protect themselves as they grow older, to name only a few areas of concern, the full engagement of legislators is crucial to ensuring effective responses to the epidemic and adequate fiscal and other resources to support them."