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Employing human rights frameworks to realize access to an HIV cure
INTRODUCTION: The scale of the HIV pandemic – and the stigma, discrimination and violence that surrounded its sudden emergence – catalyzed a public health response that expanded human rights in principle and practice. In the absence of effective treatment, human rights activists initially sought to...
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International AIDS Society
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4644771/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26568056 http://dx.doi.org/10.7448/IAS.18.1.20305 |
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author | Meier, Benjamin Mason Gelpi, Adriane Kavanagh, Matthew M Forman, Lisa Amon, Joseph J |
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description | INTRODUCTION: The scale of the HIV pandemic – and the stigma, discrimination and violence that surrounded its sudden emergence – catalyzed a public health response that expanded human rights in principle and practice. In the absence of effective treatment, human rights activists initially sought to protect individuals at high risk of HIV infection. With advances in antiretroviral therapy, activists expanded their efforts under international law, advocating under the human right to health for individual access to treatment. DISCUSSION: As a clinical cure comes within reach, human rights obligations will continue to play a key role in political and programmatic decision-making. Building upon the evolving development and implementation of the human right to health in the global response to HIV, we outline a human rights research agenda to prepare for HIV cure access, investigating the role of human rights law in framing 1) resource allocation, 2) international obligations, 3) intellectual property and 4) freedom from coercion. CONCLUSIONS: The right to health is widely recognized as central to governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental responses to the pandemic and critical both to addressing vulnerability to infection and to ensuring universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support. While the advent of an HIV cure will raise new obligations for policymakers in implementing the right to health, the resolution of past debates surrounding HIV prevention and treatment may inform claims for universal access. |
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spelling | pubmed-46447712015-11-16 Employing human rights frameworks to realize access to an HIV cure Meier, Benjamin Mason Gelpi, Adriane Kavanagh, Matthew M Forman, Lisa Amon, Joseph J J Int AIDS Soc Debate INTRODUCTION: The scale of the HIV pandemic – and the stigma, discrimination and violence that surrounded its sudden emergence – catalyzed a public health response that expanded human rights in principle and practice. In the absence of effective treatment, human rights activists initially sought to protect individuals at high risk of HIV infection. With advances in antiretroviral therapy, activists expanded their efforts under international law, advocating under the human right to health for individual access to treatment. DISCUSSION: As a clinical cure comes within reach, human rights obligations will continue to play a key role in political and programmatic decision-making. Building upon the evolving development and implementation of the human right to health in the global response to HIV, we outline a human rights research agenda to prepare for HIV cure access, investigating the role of human rights law in framing 1) resource allocation, 2) international obligations, 3) intellectual property and 4) freedom from coercion. CONCLUSIONS: The right to health is widely recognized as central to governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental responses to the pandemic and critical both to addressing vulnerability to infection and to ensuring universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support. While the advent of an HIV cure will raise new obligations for policymakers in implementing the right to health, the resolution of past debates surrounding HIV prevention and treatment may inform claims for universal access. International AIDS Society 2015-11-13 /pmc/articles/PMC4644771/ /pubmed/26568056 http://dx.doi.org/10.7448/IAS.18.1.20305 Text en © 2015 Meier BM et al; licensee International AIDS Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Debate Meier, Benjamin Mason Gelpi, Adriane Kavanagh, Matthew M Forman, Lisa Amon, Joseph J Employing human rights frameworks to realize access to an HIV cure |
title | Employing human rights frameworks to realize access to an HIV cure |
title_full | Employing human rights frameworks to realize access to an HIV cure |
title_fullStr | Employing human rights frameworks to realize access to an HIV cure |
title_full_unstemmed | Employing human rights frameworks to realize access to an HIV cure |
title_short | Employing human rights frameworks to realize access to an HIV cure |
title_sort | employing human rights frameworks to realize access to an hiv cure |
topic | Debate |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4644771/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26568056 http://dx.doi.org/10.7448/IAS.18.1.20305 |
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