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Declaration of rights for people living with HIV/AIDS

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:50:03 -0800

Full text of the revised Declaration of Rights for People Living with HIV/AIDS, launched at the NAPWA Conference on 19 November.

Fiji outlaws HIV discrimination

Graham Stocks — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:22:19 -0800

Fiji has made it unlawful to discriminate against people with HIV.

The HIV/AIDS Decree 2011 was adopted by the government this month, winning praise locally and internationally.

Pacific Islands AIDS Foundation legal trainer and policy analyst, Laitia Tamata, says the decree represents years of hard work by many people to give PLHIVPerson (or people) Living with HIV. This term is now preferred over the older PLWHA. a legal avenue to challenge discrimination.

An end to stigma

Graham Stocks — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:52:54 -0800

The stigma of HIV is something we can live without. And with your help we can make a start.

We want to hear from all sorts of people, particularly positve women, about what it means to be positive.

AIDS 2010 opens with calls to action on human rights and the hope for a cure

Paul Kidd — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:32:36 -0700

The XVIII International AIDS Conference has officially started with an opening session focusing heavily on the need for action on human rights and a call by an Australian researcher for greater focus on the prospect of a cure for HIV.

Are you clean?

Graham Stocks — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:11:08 -0800

It has become a favourite on online dating sites as the ‘polite’ way to ask about HIV status. Just for the record, it is not polite. It is both stigmatising and discriminatory.

Twenty five years on, do we still suffer stigma and discrimination? David Menadue finds that, in some areas particularly, we still do.

World AIDS Day:  ‘We are living our rights’

Paul Kidd — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:00:01 -0800

State and federal governments should make a clear commitment to reforming laws that discriminate against HIV-positive people, state and national organisations representing people living with HIV have said.

NAPWA represented at National Human Rights Consultation Committee meeting

Graham Stocks — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:51:17 -0700

NAPWA’s Deputy Director, Dr John Rule, along with representatives from GBLTI organisations, attended a meeting with Mary Kostakidis and Father Frank Brennan of the National Human Rights Consultation Committee.

A downside of same-sex law reform

Paul Kidd — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:47:40 -0700

With impending social security changes set to adversely affect a good chunk of our community, it’s important we look for ways to ease the transition for a group already doing it hard.

Your rights

Paul Kidd — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:00:00 -0800

Although you are not obliged to tell anyone your status, the law may require you to tell people under certain circumstances.

Disclosing your HIV status: a guide to some of the legal issues

admin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:10:18 -0700

This booklet contains the relevant law on disclosure of HIV status as it applies in New South Wales as at 1 January 2008.