Human Rights Under Threat: Four Perspectives in HIV, AIDS and the Law in Southern AfricaPULP, 2007 - 195 páginas The book covers the following: legislation criminalising the wilful transmission of HIV; policies aimed at routinely testing individuals attending public health facilities; policies and practices aimed at withholding or denying access to HIV- related treatment and prevention to people living with HIV, particularly men in prisons; and policies, practices and laws that limit access to medicines, in particular the lack of domestication and use of flexibilities allowed for under the World Trade Organisations Agreement on the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). |
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access to medicines access to treatment adopted African Law Commission AIDS and Human Antiretroviral ARVs behaviour Botswana compulsory licensing condoms Constitution Court criminal law criminalisation of HIV developing countries disease Doha Declaration drugs ensure epidemic Global HIV and AIDS HIV infection HIV prevention HIV status HIV testing HIV transmission HIV treatment HIV-positive HIV-related HIV/AIDS and Human impact individuals informed consent intellectual property International Guidelines legislation Lesotho living with HIV Malawi marginalised groups Mozambique Namibia National Policy Organisation patent Penal Code pharmaceutical PMTCT Policy on HIV/AIDS pre-test counselling programmes promote protection region right to health risk of HIV SADC countries Sexual Offences Act social South Africa Southern Africa Southern African countries stigma and discrimination strategies Swaziland Tanzania testing and counselling transmission or exposure treaties Treatment Action Campaign TRIPS Agreement UNAIDS University of Pretoria vulnerable and marginalised women World Health Organisation Zambia Zimbabwe
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Página 101 - The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.
Página 70 - Article 12 1 The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. 2 The steps to be taken by the States Parties to the present Covenant to achieve the full realization of this right shall include those necessary for...
Página 150 - In view of the special needs and requirements of least-developed country Members, their economic, financial and administrative constraints, and their need for flexibility to create a viable technological base, such Members shall not be required to apply the provisions of this Agreement, other than Articles 3, 4 and 5, for a period of 10 years from the date of application as defined under paragraph 1 of Article 65.
Página 178 - Institutions; d) develop policies aimed at the progressive elimination of obstacles to the free movement of capital and labour, goods and services, and of the peoples of the Region generally, among Member States...
Página 138 - A party may not invoke the provisions of its internal law as justification for its failure to perform a treaty.
Página 115 - Article 16 1. Every individual shall have the right to enjoy the best attainable state of physical and mental health. 2. States parties to the present Charter shall take the necessary measures to protect the health of their people and to ensure that they receive medical attention when they are sick.
Página 97 - Public health is what we, as a society, do collectively to assure the conditions for people to be healthy.
Página 115 - Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment...
Página 113 - The medical services should be organised in close relation with the general health administration of the community or nation. They shall include a psychiatric service for the diagnosis and, in proper cases, the treatment of states of mental abnormality. 2. Sick prisoners who require specialist treatment shall be transferred to specialised institutions or to civil hospitals. Where hospital facilities are provided in an institution, their equipment, furnishings and pharmaceutical supplies shall be...