World AIDS Day #myrighttohealth
Nigel Coulson
Capacity Development and Transition Advisor. Current focus on Youth Development and Employability
The evidence shows that programmes to combat stigma and discrimination and remove human rights barriers, leads to increased access to HIV prevention, testing and treatment. In 2016, countries across the world adopted the 2016 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS, recommitting to reviewing and reforming laws, policies and practices that reinforce stigma and discrimination and create barriers to health care.
Critical Enablers Toolkit sets out the key programmes promoted by UNAIDS and UNDP to strengthen laws and policies and remove human rights and gender-related barriers to HIV health care services. It provides information, examples and case studies of how country stakeholders can use programmes like those to review discriminatory laws, reduce stigma and discrimination or train health care workers, can support all people, including key populations, to protect themselves from HIV or get treatment and care.
https://www.undp-globalfund-capacitydevelopment.org/en/results/right-to-health/