UNAIDS: Decriminalisation is key to universal access to HIV treatment

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UNAIDS: Decriminalisation is key to universal access to HIV treatment


December 22, 2008
By Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-10046.html


The United Nations agency responsible for coordinating global efforts to combat HIV and AIDS has called for "enhanced action to promote and protect the human rights of men who have sex with men, transgender people, lesbians, gays and bisexuals."

Last Thursday the UN General Assembly heard a statement on the universal human rights of LGBT people, and at the same time UNAIDS and the United Nations Development Programme issued their own joint statement:

"The unanimous commitments of Member States to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010 and Millennium Development Goal 6 – to halt and reverse the spread of HIV by 2015 – include commitments to further the realisation of human rights for all, including for all those vulnerable to HIV infection and to the impact of AIDS.