Koch R, Carrasco E; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 1996 Jul 7-12; 11: 258 (abstract no. Tu.D.350).
ACCSI-Accion Ciudadana Contra El SIDA, Caracas, Venezuela.
Objectives: Action and promotion of AIDS-related human rights in Venezuela. Method: Direct legal assistance to persons affected by AIDS; counselling private and public sectors; educational activities specifically targeted to lawyers, attorneys, judges, procurators, health workers, educational institutes, and the public in general, and provide them with instruments and guidelines designed to preserve human rights of people living with HIV/AIDS. Promotion of national network which includes governmental and non-governmental organizations/institutes who work on AIDS and/or human rights. Results: A project which will provide us with the necessary financial support to reinforce our infrastructure, improve our services and enlarge the national network has been introduced in the European Community. The Ministerial Resolution SG439, which regulates antibody-tests to human rights' respecting conditions, has been designed in cooperation with the Ministry of Health and is being promoted throughout the country. The network has been established and includes 7 States of the Republic, which will be interconnected by e-mail. Promotion of networking activities in 5 further States is underway. Participation on government initiative to revise antagonic health legislation AIDS has been included in all human rights programmes. An investigation on prisons has been started, and women and immigration issues are treated specifically. The Declaration of the Paris Summit has been promoted and its contents recognized by the President of the Republic. An increasing number of persons living with HIV/AIDS or their families request our legal assistance services. We constantly participate on mass communication events. Lessons learned: Though we consider to have been successful in promoting human rights of people living with HIV/AIDS, there is still very few information on AIDS in our country, and consequently human rights violation is taking place in the whole of the range of our society, thus forcing us to intensify our educational and promotion activities. In order to reach the variety of our societal structure, we have to motivate people to participate on volunteering work, which is much lower in our country than in other parts of the world.
Publication Types:
Keywords:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Advertising as Topic
- Communication
- European Union
- Female
- HIV Infections
- HIV Seropositivity
- Human Rights
- Humans
- Legislation
- Organizations
- Paris
- Venezuela
- education
Other ID:
UI: 102218087
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