Fighting against AIDS: Acting for human rights and development

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If developing countries have to cope with many handicaps setbacks as well as in terms of political development, then one of the main plagues that seriously affects these countries is the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Indeed, 40 million people worldwide are infected with HIV. Among them, 95% live in developing countries. HIV/AIDS has killed more than twenty million people worldwide in the past twenty five years, and AIDS is the leading cause of death in Africa and the fourth most prominent cause of death worldwide. More precisely, women are increasingly infected by HIV/AIDS, representing 57% of the persons infected, and thirteen million children are orphaned by HIV/AIDS. In an effort to fight this outbreak, organizations of people are mobilizing to bring an efficient response to the consequences of the infection, and to slow down and reverse the spread of the disease.

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[...] Fighting against AIDS, acting for Human Rights and Development The specific field of the fight against AIDS as a leading force in the implementation of Human Rights and the development in Third World Countries. If developing countries have to cope with many handicaps setbacks economically speaking as well as in terms of political development, then one of the main plagues that seriously affects these countries is the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Indeed million people worldwide are infected with HIV. Among them live in developing countries. [...]

[...] III) Public health and Human Rights respect as part as the development The concern for the Human Rights protection by the AIDS movement also enables the AIDS issue to be put back the development agenda”[17]. Indeed, the epidemic has reversed decades of development progress in the worst affected countries[18]. AIDS was declared a development crisis by the World Bank in 2000. It is estimated that growth is decreasing of 0,5 to 1,2 percent each year because of AIDS in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa[19]. HIV/AIDS overburdens social systems, hinders educational development and also affects agricultural production because of the investment changes. It destroys advances in development achieved with difficulty within the last decades. [...]

[...] “Although some positive measures at the national level to promote and protect human rights in the context of HIV/AIDS are in place, a dramatic gap exists between professed policy and implementation on the ground” [12]. Only programs that start with respect of Human Rights can be successful. II) The contribution of AIDS programs in development and Human Rights advances Taking the example of the Non Governmental Organisations involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS, they are at risk of subordination to funds holders which could lead to ethical problems and limited operational capacities. [...]

[...] Human Rights Watch. March 2006. 10p - Other reports and instruments: Anita Alban, AIDS and development: socioeconomic perspectives, in AIDS and development prospects and constraints, The Danish Society of Tropical Medicine, DANIDA and Te Enreca Health Network Copenhagen Seminar, April 1999. p9 to 18 Lori Bollinger and John Stover, The Economic Impact of AIDS, The Futures Group International, Glastonbury, CT 12p Conseil de l'Europe, Convention de sauvegarde des droits de l'homme et des libertés fondamentales 38p George Ulrich, Danish Center for Human Rights, AIDS in the perspective of Human Rights, in AIDS and development prospects and constraints, The Danish Society of Tropical Medicine, DANIDA and Te Enreca Health Network Copenhagen Seminar, April 1999. [...]