There is global recognition that law and human rights are central to an effective HIV response. Countries need encouragement and support to strengthen legal frameworks that will protect people living with HIV and key populations at higher risk of HIV exposure, and promote universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support. UNAIDS must help to lead these efforts. This strategy details how UNAIDS in the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) region will:
- Rapidly assess current levels of integration of a rights-based public health approach
- Integrate human rights crisis prevention and response into UNAIDS country office programming
- Improve data collection and analysis to enhance such prevention and response
- Strengthen the work of the RST and our cosponsors in the region
- Prioritize a response to debates on legal barriers to HIV among key populations and those
left behind.