track f rapporteur report policy, law, human rights, political science
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Track F Rapporteur ReportPolicy, Law,
Human Rights, Political Science
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Rapporteur Team• Damon Barrett (Ireland/UK)• Rebecca Schleifer (US)• Simona Merkinaite (Lithuania)• Eka Iakobishvili (Georgia)• Alan Msosa (South Africa)• Felicita Hikuam (Namibia)• S'khumbuzo Maphumulo (South Africa)• Dan Allman (Canada)
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Track F Stats
• Rapporteur team attended over 50 sessions (Plenary, oral abstract, oral poster, special, symposium, bridging, satellite, global village)
– 45 oral abstracts– 36 oral poster abstracts
• BUT – many abstracts from other tracks with human rights content (major strength of the conference!)
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“We can’t continue to have the same discussions about human rights abuses, stigma and
discrimination without in the next breath, saying what to do about it and demanding
that funding goes to community, rights based solutions”
Susan Timberlake, UNAIDS
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Access to medicines
• TRIPS (managing the hydra)• International drug control
system (similar issues)
• ARVs (even more under threat)
• OST• Opiates for pain• HCV treatment
“Seven years on and we have one export under compulsory licence”
Richard Elliott
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Criminalisation
• Refugees/asylum seekers• Drug use/possession• Sex work• HIV transmission/exposure• Abortion• SOGI, sexual rights!• Human rights defenders• Prisons, HIV and TB
“Criminalisation does not work!”Michel Sidibe
“Decriminalisation does!”Joao Goulao
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Right to an adequate standard of living
• Enabling environment• Housing• Sanitation• Education• Food security• Healthcare (incl. SRH)• Social welfare• Employment
“Why would we give clean needles to dead drug users?”
David MacDonald
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Accountability
• Empowerment and accountability are symbiotic
• Investment in capacity!• GIPA– How to involve criminalised
groups?– How to involve youth?
• Donor accountability (national, bilateral, multilateral)
• Healthcare staff
“GIPA is investment in PLHIV”Julian Hows
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Data collection
• Knowing the epidemic REQUIRES rights based analysis – only then can you have a rights based approach
• Rights-based indicators – what evidence counts?
• ‘Hidden populations’ are not hidden by choice– Gender based violence– Police violence– Stigma
“We need a modelling armistice – let’s collect some data!”
Bernard Hirschel
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Achievement of rights to the maximum of available resources
• ‘AIDS is not in recession’• Innovative financing
mechanisms• Non-discrimination &
neglected populations (e.g. disability, women)
• Re-directing from failed policies and approaches
“Three cents a day is not enough”Professor Gerry Stimson
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Right to benefit from scientific progress and
its applications
• Microbicides (same threats as existing technologies)
• ARV generics• Treatment as prevention
(but must be human rights compliant)
• Harm reduction• Social sciences
“Conducting re-trials on human subjects in unethical!”
Khalil Elouardighi
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The message from AIDS 2010 is clear
Over 12,500 people say:
It is time to count the costs of the war on
drugs
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What do we want to see in two years?
• Funding for rights based programming• Human rights knowledge informing public
health programmes• More conference content on creating an
enabling environment• Planning now to ensure barriers to attendance
are removed• Maxim Popov, Alaei brothers LONG RELEASED
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• Two billion dollars were spent on the war on drugs• 3,000 contracted HIV in EECA• Russia reasserted its opposition to harm reduction
(while preparations were made for a Russian government official to take the reins at UNODC)
BUT• Namibia announced removal of travel restrictions• Argentina legalised same sex marriage
During the conference…