Effective HIV responses require legal, policy and social environments that empower people living with HIV, those at higher risk of HIV infection and others affected by the epidemic to claim their rights and receive redress when those rights are violated.
Those who are responsible for enabling such legal, policy and social environments need to be properly trained. However, country reporting to UNAIDS in 2020 shows that training programmes on human rights and non-discrimination legal frameworks applicable to HIV are operating at scale at the national level for police and other law enforcement personnel in only 40 out 102 reporting countries, for members of the judiciary in 36 out of 100 reporting countries and for lawmakers and parliamentarians in 30 out of 97 reporting countries.
