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Nexus between Human Development and HIV/AIDSepidemic and live with the virus on a dailybasis. Clearly the human developmentframework, which places people at thecentre as empowered beings and not asfactory inputs is well suited to enshrinethe principle of GIPA. It may beinstructive at this point to listen to thevoices of PLWHA and build their concernssystematically into not only programmespertaining to HIV and public health butalso address their concerns regardinglivelihood, social security and a publicexistence cleansed of stigma anddiscrimination.“or while there is increasing evidence that the problem of the epidemic isincreasingly perceived as developmental in its origins, in that thedeterminants are fundamentally structural, there remains an enormous gapbetween a deepened perception of the problem and a commitment to effectiveaction. … An effective response to the epidemic entails more than redefiningit as a developmental problem, in that what is needed are policies fordevelopment that are themselves relevant and effective. Thus, it has beenprecisely the failures of development that have generated the conditions inwhich the HIV epidemic has thrived, and which also constrains effectiveresponses to its deepening socio-economic impact.”Sheila Smith and Desmond Cohen in Gender, Developmentand the HIV Epidemic, UNDP, 200038Regional Human Development ReportHIV/AIDS and Development in South Asia 2003