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DOCN M94A1923
TI Human rights abuses related to HIV status--a survey of reports received.
DT 9412
AU Cortinas JI; International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, San;
Francisco, CA 94103.
SO Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):420 (abstract no. PD0287). Unique
Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94370652
AB Between 1991 and 1993 IGLHRC received and confirmed 15 reports of
systematic HIV related human rights violations. These reports included
accounts of extra-juridical violence, disappearances, forced relocation,
employment discrimination, denial of freedom of speech, assembly and
other social and cultural rights, as well as forced testing and
inappropriate surveillance. Reports reached IGLHRC from Colombia,
Russia, Hungray, Belgium, Venezuela, Burma, Thailand, Cuba, United
States, Croatia, Brazil and Mexico. Abuses were perpetuated by
governmental and nongovernmnetal actors. They contradicted
internationally accepted public health standards, human rights treaties,
and often local laws as well. They often included violence or its
threat. In all cases surveyed, the marginalization of the populations
targeted predates the AIDS epidemic. Several inadequacies with current
thinking about how to best to protect and advance the human rights of
people with HIV were revealed: 1. Violations of a person's human rights
that are related to HIV status, and in turn increase their risk for HIV
infection, are often driven by patterns of marginalization that predate
the epidemic. 2. Anti-discrimination laws do not address deeply located
cultural, social and political marginalization often at the root of
human rights violations. 3. Health promotion describing the real routes
of HIV transmission and effective ways to control it does not go far
enough to allay fears based on counter rational, ideological beliefs.
Discussion of HIV and human rights has been hampered by international
human rights practice that prioritizes civil and political rights. This
officializing thrust emphasizes legally sustainable, discrete
complaints, such as employment discrimination and the rights of the
patient, and misses others, such as the right to cultural participation
and community controlled education. New multi disciplinary, multi
pronged, and locally controlled strategies seeking economical, social
and cultural rights, as well as political and civil rights, need to be
developed as public health initiatives.
DE Civil Rights Female Health Promotion Human *Human Rights *HIV
Infections/PREVENTION & CONTROL/TRANSMISSION *HIV Seropositivity
International Cooperation Male *Patient Advocacy Public Health
*Truth Disclosure MEETING ABSTRACT
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).