Supporting the response to the HIV epidemic in Eastern and Southern Africa

However, addressing human rights violations will require the integration of international human rights principles and norms into the national legal framework. Cognisant of this fact, UNDP’s Regional Service Centre for Eastern and Southern Africa held a consultative workshop for stakeholders in Eastern and Southern Africa in Johannesburg on 27-29 June 2006.

As part of this process, a desk review and analysis of the regional and national legal and policy frameworks for the response to HIV in Eastern and Southern Africa was conducted. The review highlighted, among others, the need to mainstream human rights standards and norms into national responses to HIV in Eastern and Southern African countries. The advocacy tools, presented here, were developed, following this review, to support Eastern and Southern African countries in their legislative and policy reform in the context of HIV.

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