Advancing Human Rights, Equality and Inclusive Governance to End AIDS

Three decades of experience in the global response to HIV show that human rights-based approaches to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support – coupled with enabling legal environments to safeguard rights – help reduce people’s vulnerability to HIV. A rights based response to HIV helps ensure that services are accessible to those most at risk, and enables key populations and other affected communities to participate in deciding an enabling legal and policy environment, which can also have a direct impact on reducing HIV transmission.