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[...] [...] including people living with HIV and key [...] [...]

[...] [...] pensions for the elderly, and support for people with disabilities and people living with HIV [...]

The objective includes establishing a care treatment and support network system for persons living with AIDS and their families.

[...] with HIV/AIDS and 80,000 AIDS patients).

Working in partnership with key stakeholders (civil service organizations, networks of people living with HIV and AIDS and traditional healers, etc.), UNESCO is supporting the development of local cultural environments and evidence-based research capacity in Southern Africa (Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia) in an effort to better inform national HIV and AIDS policies and programmes especially for prevention purposes.

This free treatment has prolonged the life expectancy of seropositive people.

[...] [...] voice for people living with HIV within [...] [...]

Some delegations noted that civil society organizations had brought about changes in attitudes, mobilized communities, generated demand for HIV services, linked those in need to government HIV services, provided critical input to relevant laws and policies, worked to reduce stigma and discrimination and increase access to justice for people living with HIV and key affected populations, and provided feedback through community-based monitoring.

[...] [...] representatives of networks of people living with HIV and [...]

[...] [...] acceptance for people living with HIV within [...] [...]

Customs administrations, who are key stakeholders in implementing appropriate measures at the border in line with the provisions of the Special Recommendation of the Financial Action Task Force on cash couriers, also have the necessary access to information to identify potential cases of trade-based money-laundering.

[...] [...] involvement of people living with HIV, development [...] [...]

Specific international meetings, conferences and events organized under the aegis of each programme – such as the ninth session of the International Bioethics Committee (IBC) (Montreal, Canada, 26-28 November 2002); the participation of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) in the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg, 2002); the holding of Philosophy Day (Paris, 21 November 2002, and at many other locations in the Member States); and the hosting of the Twenty-first Century Talks devoted to HIV/AIDS (Barcelona, July 2002), to mention only a few examples highlighted in the report for the period under review – contributed to enhancing the mandate of the Organization as an intellectual forum.

The framework is the result of an 18-month consultation process between UNAIDS, faith-based organizations, networks of people living with HIV, Government representatives and technical experts.

The meeting explored opportunities for religious leaders to promote universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support in their communities and to speak out against the stigma and discrimination affecting people living with HIV.

[...] [...] human rights of Persons Living with HIV and [...]

With this in mind, the Government is currently in the process of increasing and strengthening systems to guarantee full implementation of its policy of ensuring free universal access to anti-retroviral treatment, quality health care and other systemic support for Persons Living with HIV and AIDS.

Despite a relative slowdown in the estimated number of new HIV infections between 2001 and 2008, the increase in the number of people in low- and middle-income countries receiving antiretroviral therapy and the relative decline in recorded cases around the world, the total number of people living with HIV worldwide is still more than 33 million, more than two thirds of whom are in Africa alone.

Effective programmes must specifically address mother-to-child transmission of the virus and ensure that all people living with the virus have access to appropriate life-extending medications, free from stigma and discrimination.

The second consultation “Facing racism, discrimination and xenophobia in Africa: Visions and strategies for an effective follow-up to the Durban World Conference”, held in Dakar (13-15 February 2003), stressed the need to tackle internal forms of discrimination inherited from the past, new forms of discrimination, in particular against carriers of the AIDS virus, and the rise of xenophobia on the continent.

UNICEF and partners support improved communication on the increased risks from malaria in people with HIV and the need for intensified prevention and treatment, including provision of ITNs through routine services to people living with HIV, especially pregnant women.

He also refers to a 2006 case, Khudobin v. Russia, where the European Court of Human Rights found that the absence of medical assistance of a HIV-positive prisoner, in the given context, amounted to degrading treatment.

[...] [...] meaningful and measurable involvement of civil society, especially people living with HIV and [...] [...]

[...] [...] limited to the elderly, minorities, persons with disabilities, the mentally ill, persons living with HIV [...] [...]

The Centre, whose mandate is to implement the National Workplace Policy on HIV and AIDS to ensure the fundamental human rights of Persons Living with HIV and AIDS are respected, is pioneering in the Western Hemisphere.