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Handbook on HIV and human rights for national human rights institutions.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Geneva : Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (46 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781435641495
  • 1435641493
  • 9789211541816
  • 9211541816
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Handbook on HIV and human rights for national human rights institutions.DDC classification:
  • 362.196/9792 22
LOC classification:
  • RA643.8 .H36 2007eb
Online resources:
Partial contents:
National human rights institutions in the response to HIV -- In-reach and outreach : assessing national institutions : internal policies, working methods, external partnerships, and workplans and priorities -- Integrating HIV into existing activities and programmes -- Educating and raising awareness on HIV and human rights -- Working with national AIDs programmes : national human rights institutions and the "three ones" -- Achieving universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.
Summary: This handbook is designed to assist national human rights institutions to integrate HIV into their mandate to protect and promote human rights. It provides a basic overview of the role of human rights in an effective response to the epidemic and suggests concrete activities that national institutions can carry out within their existing work. It also presents possibilities for engaging with the national HIV response in order to protect and promote human rights. The handbook is primarily intended for use by staff of national human rights institutions, civil society organizations, networks of people living with HIV and national AIDS programs. It should be read together with the International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights.--Publisher's description.
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"United National Publication, Sales no. E.07. XIV.12"--Page 2 of cover

Includes bibliographical references.

National human rights institutions in the response to HIV -- In-reach and outreach : assessing national institutions : internal policies, working methods, external partnerships, and workplans and priorities -- Integrating HIV into existing activities and programmes -- Educating and raising awareness on HIV and human rights -- Working with national AIDs programmes : national human rights institutions and the "three ones" -- Achieving universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.

This handbook is designed to assist national human rights institutions to integrate HIV into their mandate to protect and promote human rights. It provides a basic overview of the role of human rights in an effective response to the epidemic and suggests concrete activities that national institutions can carry out within their existing work. It also presents possibilities for engaging with the national HIV response in order to protect and promote human rights. The handbook is primarily intended for use by staff of national human rights institutions, civil society organizations, networks of people living with HIV and national AIDS programs. It should be read together with the International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights.--Publisher's description.

Print version record.

English.

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