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Health Action AIDS
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Health Action AIDS
News & Reports
New Releases on HIV/AIDS
- Human Rights Groups at Mexico City AIDS Conference Petition Iran for Release of HIV/AIDS Doctors
(Mexico City) A coalition of AIDS and human rights organizations that includes Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) has launched a campaign to free two Iranian physicians, Drs. Arash Alaei and Kamiar Alaei. The doctors, who are brothers, are active in HIV/AIDS education, prevention and treatment in Iran.
August 4, 2008
- First-Ever Guide for Building Human Rights into Health Workforce Planning, in Africa and Beyond, Released in Mexico City
(Mexico City) Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), in consultation with numerous African NGOs, government officials, and individual health professionals, is releasing a guide today that shows how even very poor countries can build human rights into their health workforce planning and raise the standard of health among their citizens.
August 4, 2008
- PEPFAR: $48 Billion Landmark Bill Reauthorized; Millions of Lives to be Saved
The US Senate voted to reauthorize PEPFAR AIDS legislation (the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), despite a gauntlet of last-minute obstacles and objections...
July 17, 2008
Reports on HIV/AIDS
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The Right to Health and Health Workforce Planning
The purpose of this guide is to explain why it is necessary to ground health workforce planning in human rights, and how to develop a plan that does just that.
February 29, 2008
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Success Stories from the Field: Curbing the Spread of HIV/AIDS among Drug Injectors
This document presents brief descriptions of innovative and successful HIV prevention programs targeting injection drug users in Brazil, Russia, India, and a cross-border area of southern China and northern Vietnam.
May 31, 2007
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Epidemic of Inequality: Women's Rights and HIV/AIDS in Botswana & Swaziland
Deeply entrenched gender inequities perpetuate the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Botswana and Swaziland,the two countries with the highest HIV prevalence in the world.10 The legal systems in both countries grant women lesser status than men, restricting property, inheritance and other rights.
May 25, 2007
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