library themes: human rights

Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Human Rights of People Living with HIV

Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Human Rights of People Living with HIV
This Guidance Package, developed by people living with HIV, describes the important issues and key areas for change. Going forward, legislators, government ministries, international organizations, donors, and community- and faith-based organizations, with the continued input and guidance of people living with HIV, must work together to put in place the services and legal supports that will build better sexual and reproductive health for everyone.
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Good Practice Guide: Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV

GIPA Good Practice Guide for PLHIV
This guide was produced by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP +) . It is part of a series of good practice guides produced by the Alliance. This series combines the experience of global HIV programming at the community level in order to define and guide good practice in a variety of technical areas. The Good Practice Guide on GIPA (Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV and AIDS) contains information , strategies, and resources to support program managers to enable meaningful participation of PLHIV in new and existing programs of HIV.
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Guía de Buenas Prácticas: Mayor Participación de las Personas que Viven con el VIH

This guide was produced by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP +) . It is part of a series of good practice guides produced by the Alliance. This series combines the experience of global HIV programming at the community level in order to define and guide good practice in a variety of technical areas. The Good Practice Guide on GIPA (Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV and AIDS) contains information , strategies, and resources to support program managers to enable meaningful participation of PLHIV in new and existing programs of HIV.
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People Living with HIV Global Advocacy Agenda 2013-2015

People Living with HIV Global Advocacy Agenda 2013-2015
Published in 2012, this call to action was developed by a group of people living with HIV who are engaged in global advocacy work and who partcipated in a meeting in November 2012 in Marrakech, Morocco to explore how the Global Advocacy Agenda could be used to support and strengthen existing advocacy efforts. The Global Advocacy Agenda is a tool to articulate the advocacy isseus of most significance to the community of people living with HIV, based on broad consultation. 
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Positive Health, Dignity, and Prevention: Operational Guidelines

Positive Health, Dignity, and Prevention: Operational Guidelines
Developed by the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention represents a fundamental shift in the way in which people living with HIV are involved in the HIV response:

It calls for leadership by people living with HIV, including those from key populations
It transforms the concept of access to services, from a simple biomedical model to a holistic approach to meeting the needs of people living with HIV and their families in their communities
It puts the person living with HIV in the centre, and calls for a comprehensive set of actions – at policy and service delivery levels – that take into consideration the individual’s lived environment; and 
It recognises the importance of meeting not only the person’s clinical needs but also their health needs and to protect their human rights.

The Opeational Guidelines were developed for and by people living with HIV based on numerous consultations at the global, regional, and national levels. It articulates the next stage in the HIV response, where people living with HIV are at the centre and services offered in an environment that is supportive to meet all the needs of people living with HIV and their families. Instead of being regarded by “positive prevention” programmes as mere recipients of care and vessels of a virus that needs to be contained, people living with HIV embrace a new paradigm where they are actively involved as part of the solution to the epidemic and not seen as part of the problem. 

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Human Rights for HIV, TB, Malaria and HSS Grants: Information Note

Human Rights for HIV, TB, Malaria and HSS Grants: Information Note
The Global Fund Strategy, Investing for Impact 2012-2016, has five objectives. One of these commits to protecting and promoting human rights by:

Integrating human rights considerations throughout the grant cycle;
Increasing investment in programs that address human rights-related barriers to access; and
Ensuring the Global Fund does not support programs that infringe human rights.

The Global Fund’s mandate focuses on ensuring access to health services and in this way, promoting the right to health. A growing body of evidence demonstrates that the right to health can only be realized if other intersecting human rights are protected, promoted and fulfilled. However, a 2011 UNDP, UNAIDS and Global Fund study found that in settings where key populations are criminalized, Global Fund proposals and grants often did not include human rights programs that benefit the populations who need those services most. In the new funding model, applicants are strongly encouraged to incorporate human rights programming in their concept notes.

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Les droits de l’homme dans le cadre des subventions liées au vih, à la tuberculose, au paludisme et au renforcement des systèmes de santé

Les droits de l'homme dans le cadre des subventions liées au vih, à la tuberculose, au paludisme et au renforcement des systèmes de santé
La stratégie 2012-2016 du Fonds mondial de lutte contre le sida, la tuberculose et le paludisme, «Investir pour maximiser l’impact», poursuit cinq objectifs dont celui de protéger et de promouvoir les droits de l’homme : 1. en intégrant la question des droits de l’homme tout au long du cycle de la subvention ; 2. en investissant davantage dans des programmes qui s’attaquent aux obstacles à l’accès liés aux droits de l’homme ; 3. en veillant à ce que le Fonds mondial ne subventionne pas des programmes qui enfreignent les droits de l’homme. Le mandat du Fonds mondial vise à garantir l’accès aux services de santé et, de cette façon, à promouvoir le droit à la santé. Des éléments toujours plus nombreux attestent que le droit à la santé ne peut être réalisé que si d’autres droits de l’homme apparentés sont protégés, promus et respectés. Toutefois, une étude du PNUD, de l’ONUSIDA et du Fonds mondial de 2011 a constaté que, souvent, dans les régions où les populations-clés sont criminalisées, les propositions et les subventions du Fonds mondial n’incluent pas de programmes relatifs aux droits de l’homme dont pourraient bénéficier les populations qui en ont le plus besoin. Dans le cadre du nouveau modèle de financement, les candidats sont vivement encouragés à incorporer à leurs notes conceptuelles une programmation basée sur les droits de l’homme.
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