The UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights, "Statement and Recommendations on Scaling up HIV Testing and Counselling"
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Letters/Other Advocacy Documents
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The UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights is an independent, advisory body, established in 2002 to advise the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) on all matters relating to HIV and human rights. The group issued this independent "Statement and Recommendations on Scaling up HIV Testing and Counselling" expressing that HIV testing and counseling should be implemented in ways that maximize benefits to individuals and public health, and respect, protect and fulfill human rights. As the group notes, Efforts to increase access to HIV testing and counselling are not occurring in a vacuum. Rather, they take place in an environment in which evidence-informed and human rights-based policies and responses to HIV are being widely undermined. Furthermore, even as vastly increased funding for HIV has become available, those most vulnerable to HIV and its impact continue to receive the least access to HIV prevention, care and treatment services.
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2007-September-17
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