Guide for Community Assessments on Women's Health Care - ICRW

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A8. Human Rights and HIV Promoting human rights in the context of HIV and AIDS means: ●● ●● ●● encouraging people to respect each other’s rights, and to treat others as they themselves would wish to be treated. making sure that education and health care are available to everyone. educating people to help overcome the fears, ignorance and prejudice that lead them to abuse the rights of others. Protecting human rights means: ●● ●● ●● supporting and defending people whose rights are threatened or abused. remedying and compensating <strong>for</strong> abuses when they occur. working to change the conditions of poverty, powerlessness and dependence that make people vulnerable to human rights abuse. Internationally accepted human rights The human rights of people living with HIV and AIDS are abused in countries all over the world. The following are human rights, and examples of how those rights are being abused in the context of HIV and reproductive health. Liberty, security and freedom of movement Abuses: ●● ●● Compulsory HIV testing Quarantine, isolation and segregation, <strong>for</strong> example quarantining HIV-positive sex workers Freedom from inhumane or degrading treatment Abuses: ●● ●● ●● Isolation, <strong>for</strong> example of HIV-positive prisoners Participation in drug or medical trials without fully in<strong>for</strong>med consent Physical, emotional and psychological abuse of HIV-positive women Right to marry or have relationships and children Abuses: ●● ●● ●● ●● ●● ●● Forced abortion or sterilization Compulsory pre-marital HIV testing Discrimination against same sex relationships Forced pregnancy Forced wife inheritance Forced taking of children 92 Annex A: Fact Sheets
Equal access to health care Abuses: ●● ●● ●● Lack of appropriate drugs, condoms, clean syringes and diagnostic and treatment procedures Refusal to care <strong>for</strong> or treat people with HIV, including refusal of hospital beds Lack of access to drug use treatment centers Education Abuses: ●● ●● Lack of access to in<strong>for</strong>mation that enables people to make in<strong>for</strong>med choices Refusal to provide education because of HIV status Equal protection of the law Abuses: ●● ●● ●● Privacy Abuses: ●● ●● ●● ●● Denying access to legal advice or services Compulsory testing of those accused in rape/abuse cases be<strong>for</strong>e a guilty verdict is pronounced Prosecution of HIV-positive sex workers Lack of confidentiality or disclosure of test results without consent Compulsory reporting of people with HIV to health authorities (making HIV a notifiable disease) Partner tracing and notification without consent Compulsory testing of newborn babies Self-determination Abuses: ●● ●● Banning organizations by people vulnerable to or affected by HIV Lack of access to in<strong>for</strong>mation that helps people make in<strong>for</strong>med choices Shelter, social security and housing Abuses: ●● ●● Denial of access to housing or social services Eviction by landlords because of HIV status Work and security Abuses: ●● ●● ●● Dismissal from or discrimination at work Limited or no insurance coverage or other benefits HIV testing as a precondition of employment Annex A: Fact Sheets 93
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Abbreviations ART ARV CA CD4 CBO CL
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Why was this Guide
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Checklist of Materials FLIPCHART PA
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