- Authors
- Kaplan, Karyn and Rebecca Schleifer
- Title
- Deadly Denial: Barriers to HIV/AIDS Treatment for People Who Use Drugs in Thailand
- Description of Work
- Volume 19, No. 17(c)
- Imprint
- Human Rights Watch; TTAG - Thai AIDS Treatment Action Group, © November 2007, 61 pp
- Description
Reproduced with the kind permission of Human Rights Watch.
- Abstract
"Thailand, globally regarded as an HIV/AIDS response “success story” for its aggressive HIV prevention programs and efforts to provide universal access to HIV treatment, has failed to prevent or treat HIV among those at the highest risk of infection and on whom the disease continues to have the most devastating impact—people who use drugs. For two decades, injecting drug users have suffered Thailand's highest HIV prevalence and benefited little from its programs…
Thailand must take prompt and forceful action to address the systematic violations of human rights against people who use drugs and prisoners by law enforcement and health care providers, as well as the widespread prejudices by government and civil society against them. Failure to do so violates Thailand’s constitutional and international obligations and encourages the course of its AIDS epidemic among some of Thailand’s most marginalized."
Related Entries
Countries
NGOs or Civil Society Organisations
Topics
- Care and support
- Human rights and ethics
- Injecting drug use
- Treatment
- United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS
- Universal access
Related Published Resources
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- National AIDS Prevention and Alleviation Committee, UNGASS Country Progress Report: Thailand, Reporting period: January 2006 - December 2007
Submission date: 31 January 2008, 31 January 2008, 107 pp. (Also available at http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/2008 thailand_2008_country_progress_report_en.pdf) [ Details... ]