HIV and human rights Archives - USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health

Getting to the Heart of Stigma: A Key Element of the Global AIDS Response

Posted on September 15, 2020August 18, 2022

March 1st was Global Zero Discrimination Day, a day created to remind us of the harm that stigma and discrimination, relating to HIV and other characteristics, continues to cause and the role that each of us has in tryi... read more →

The recognition and evolution of the HIV and human rights interface: 1981–2017

Posted on November 30, 2018May 2, 2019

In this book chapter, published in the Research Handbook on Global Health Law, Sofia Gruskin and Daniel Tarantola discuss the linkages between health and human rights in relation to HIV, and describe a joint action and ac... read more →

Assessing changes in HIV-related legal and policy environments: Lessons learned from a multi-country evaluation

Posted on February 23, 2018May 2, 2019

There is growing recognition in the health community that the legal environment—including laws, policies, and related procedures—impacts vulnerability to HIV and access to HIV-related services both positively and negative... read more →

Sofia Gruskin: We must follow California’s example and repeal archaic HIV laws

Posted on December 15, 2017January 7, 2019

California made national headlines when it repealed an HIV criminalization law and reduced penalties for exposing other people to the virus, writes Sofia Gruskin in her BMJ blog Dec. 15. She calls for other ... read more →

Baseline Evaluation Report – The Global Fund Africa Regional HIV Grant: Removing Legal Barriers to Accessing HIV, TB and Malaria Services

Posted on January 26, 2017April 17, 2020

The Program on Global Health and Human Rights (GHHR) is responsible for conducting the baseline and endline evaluations for the Global Fund’s $10.5 million Africa Regional HIV Grant focused on strengthening the legal and po... read more →

Monitoring HIV-Related Laws and Policies: Lessons for AIDS and Global Health in Agenda 2030

Posted on January 1, 2017August 25, 2018

The National Commitments and Policy Instrument (NCPI) has been used to monitor AIDS-related laws and policies for more than a decade. In this publication, USC Program on Global Health & Human Rights Director Sofia Gruski... read more →

Human Rights, Gender, and Infectious Disease: From HIV/AIDS to Ebola

Posted on November 1, 2016August 25, 2018

The HIV/AIDS, Ebola and Zika crises have revealed that infectious disease does not affect all global citizens equally. Among the many factors at play in making some people more vulnerable than others are human rights and gend... read more →

Strengthening Regional and National Legislative Environments to Support the Human Rights of LGBT People and Women and Girls affected by HIV and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Posted on December 1, 2015August 21, 2018

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Regional Centre for Africa designed and implemented a project entitled "Strengthening Regional and National Legislative Environments to Support the Human Rights of LGBT People a... read more →

The HIV care cascade: models, measures and moving forward

Posted on March 2, 2015August 21, 2018

Introduction: This article seeks to identify where delays occur along the adult HIV care cascade (“the cascade”), to improve understanding of what constitutes “delay” at each stage of the cascade and how this can be m... read more →

The current state of play of research on the social, political and legal dimensions of HIV

Posted on March 1, 2015August 21, 2018

This paper offers a critical overview of social science research presented at the 2014 International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia. In an era of major biomedical advance, the political nature of HIV remains of fun... read more →