Legal Aspects of HIV and AIDS: A Guide for Policy and Law Reform (Law, Justice, and Development Series) (Law, Justice, and Development Series Law, Justice, and Devel)

This is an invaluable resource for lawyers, policy makers, and other practitioners with an interest in countries' responses to HIV/AIDS. Legal Aspects of HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Policy and Law Reform covers 65 wide-ranging topics in a concise, accessible format, explaining how laws and regulations can either underpin or undermine public health programs and responsible personal behavior. For each topic, the Guide summarizes the key legal or policy issues, provides relevant "practice examples" (citing actual laws and regulations), and offers a selective list of references that may be consulted for more information. Laws relating to many areas of our lives - from intimate physical conduct to international travel - can contribute to stigma, discrimination, and exclusion or, contrariwise, can help remedy these inequities. In order to create a supportive legal framework for responding to HIV/AIDS, it is important that governments effectively address gaps and other problematic aspects in their legislation and regulatory systems. This book, written by a team of leading legal experts, helps them do so. This book covers 64 wide-ranging topics related to HIV and AIDS, in a concise format that is easy to use for lawyers and people without legal training. It should be an invaluable resource for lawyers, policy makers and other practitioners with an interest in countries' responses to HIV. The book explains how laws and regulations can either underpin or undermine good public health programs and responsible personal behaviors. Each topic provides a concise summary of the key legal and policy issues, provides relevant "practice examples" (often citing from actual laws and regulations) and offers a selective list of references for each topic that may be consulted for more detailed information. "This is a resource for lawyers, policy makers, and other practitioners with an interest in countries' responses to HIV/AIDS. Legal Aspects of HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Policy and Law Reform covers 65 topics in a concise, accessible format, explaining how laws and regulations can either underpin or undermine public health programs and responsible personal behavior. For each topic, the Guide summarizes the key legal or policy issues, provides relevant "practice examples" (citing actual laws and regulations) and offers a list of references that may be consulted for more information."--Jacket Public health policies and practices -- People living with HIV : discrimination -- Disclosure and exposure -- Injecting drug use -- Sex work -- Men having sex with men -- Women -- Children -- Clinical research -- Information -- Access to medicines -- World Bank policies and procedures 'Global HIV/AIDS program and legal vice presidency, the World Bank.'