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About the publication:
As its title indicates, Human
rights protected? Nine Southern African country
reports on HIV, AIDS and the law charts the
extent to which human rights are protected in the
legal systems of the Southern African states with
very high HIV prevalence rates. These countries
are Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozam-bique, Namibia,
South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Issues
that are covered in the publication include access
to health care, privacy, non-discrimination, labour
rights, women's rights, children's rights, prisoners’
rights and the government's oversight function.
Human rights protected? Nine Southern
African country reports on HIV, AIDS and the law,
undertaken by researchers based at or associated
with the AIDS and Human Rights Research Unit, an
initiative of the Centre for the Study of AIDS (CSA)
and the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria,
updates a similar study completed in 2002.
Open Society Initiative for Southern
African (OSISA) supported the research and publication
of this study. OSISA also supported the accompanying
publication, Human rights under threat: Four
perspectives on HIV, AIDS and the law in Southern
Africa, in which four topical themes (wilful
HIV transmission, routine testing, access to condoms
in prisons and the use of TRIPS flexibilities) are
addressed.
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