Publications about human rights and HIV

UNAIDS data 2024

Take the rights path to end AIDS — World AIDS Day report 2024

2024 global AIDS report — The Urgency of Now: AIDS at a Crossroads

Western and Central Europe and North America regional profile — 2024...

Western and Central Africa regional profile — 2024 global AIDS update The...

Eastern and Southern Africa regional profile — 2024 global AIDS update The...

Eastern Europe and Central Asia regional profile — 2024 global AIDS update...

Caribbean regional profile — 2024 global AIDS update The Urgency of Now:...

Asia and the Pacific regional profile — 2024 global AIDS update The...

56th session of the Human Rights Council

Preventing and responding to an HIV-related human rights crisis — Guidance...

Let Communities Lead — UNAIDS World AIDS Day report 2023

Summary — Let Communities Lead — UNAIDS World AIDS Day report 2023

UNAIDS data 2023

Executive summary — The path that ends AIDS: UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2023

The path that ends AIDS: UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2023

Global Partnership for Action to Eliminate All Forms of HIV-Related Stigma...

UNAIDS data 2022

Executive summary — In Danger: UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2022

Full report — In Danger: UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2022

So what's stopping us from ending AIDS?

Remove laws that harm, create laws that empower — Zero Discrimination Day...

2021 World AIDS Day report — Unequal, unprepared, under threat: why bold...

UNAIDS data 2021

From promises to action: scaling up efforts against human rights barriers...

Global commitments, local action

HIV and stigma and discrimination — Human rights fact sheet series 2021

HIV and people in prisons and other closed settings — Human rights fact...

HIV and sex work — Human rights fact sheet series 2021

HIV and transgender and other gender-diverse people — Human rights fact...

HIV and gay men and who have sex with other men — Human rights fact sheet...

HIV and people who use drugs — Human rights fact sheet series 2021

HIV criminalization — Human rights fact sheet series 2021

Legal and policy trends impacting people living with HIV and key...

Addressing stigma and discrimination in the COVID-19 response — Applying...

Rights in a pandemic – Lockdowns, rights and lessons from HIV in the early...

International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT)

Evidence for eliminating HIV-related stigma and discrimination — Guidance...

Rights in the time of COVID-19 — Lessons from HIV for an effective,...

We’ve got the power — Women, adolescent girls and the HIV response

Zero discrimination against women and girls

Global AIDS update 2019 — Communities at the centre

Mobility and stability — Advancing the health and rights of migrants in...

Demanding access to justice — Spearheading the establishment of the...

My right, my health — Supporting the development of an enabling legal...

Rights-based monitoring and evaluation of national HIV responses

Changing laws that discriminate

Still not welcome — HIV-related travel restrictions

Health, rights and drugs — Harm reduction, decriminalization and zero...

UNAIDS Gender Assessment Tool — Towards a gender-transformative HIV...

HIV, the Law and Human Rights in the African Human Rights System: Key...

Right to health

Confronting discrimination advancing health

Confronting discrimination

Joint United Nations statement on ending discrimination in health care...

Fast-Track and human rights — Advancing human rights in efforts to...

Agenda for zero discrimination in health-care settings

Eliminating discrimination in health care — Stepping stone towards ending...

Shoulder to shoulder — Protecting key populations against human rights...

Get on the Fast-Track — The life-cycle approach to HIV

Agenda for zero discrimination in health care

Sustaining the human rights response to HIV

Human rights and the law

Eliminating forced, coercive and otherwise involuntary sterilization - An...

Now more than ever: Targeting zero human rights violations of lesbian, gay...

Ending overly broad criminalisation of HIV non-disclosure, exposure and...

Judging the epidemic: A judicial handbook on HIV, human rights and the law

Speech by UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé on the occasion of the...

"We must be the change we wish to see": Report of the Executive Director...

Key programmes to reduce stigma and discrimination and increase access to...

UNAIDS Guidance note on HIV and sex work (updated April 2012)

UNAIDS Executive Director’s Statement at the 19th Session of the Human...

"Getting to zero demands compassion": UNAIDS Executive Director’s speech...

"Getting to zero is a journey to social justice": UNAIDS Executive...

UNAIDS Executive Director’s speech to the High Level Policy Consultation...

Community Innovation: Achieving sexual and reproductive health and rights...

Launch of the Agenda for Accelerating Country Action on Women, Girls,...

Highlights from AIDS 2010, XVIII International AIDS Conference, Vienna,...

HIV in cities of the 21st century: How the urban response to HIV can keep...

We can remove punitive laws, policies, practices, stigma and...

By Women, For Women

XVIII International AIDS Conference, Vienna, Austria - 18-23 July 2010

Speech to opening of AIDS 2010 by Michel Sidibé, UNAIDS Executive Director

Statement by UNAIDS Executive Director on the occasion of International...

UNAIDS Executive Director's video message on China's travel ban lift

5th Francophone conference on HIV/AIDS in Casablanca

Speech by UNAIDS Executive Director: Pragmatism vs. Punishment: The Case...

Beautiful Music: Bringing Africa’s Drug Regulations in Harmony with Human...

Jurists, Justice and AIDS

Statement of Principles on HIV, the Law and the Judiciary in sub-Saharan...

South Africa’s Reinvigorated AIDS Response - Speech by Michel Sidibé

Message from Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS, on the occasion...

Denying Entry, Stay and Residence due to HIV Status

Universal access for men who have sex with men: winds of change; signs of...

Report of the International Task Team on HIV-related Travel Restrictions...

The impact of HIV-related restrictions on entry, stay and residence: an...

The impact of HIV-related restrictions on entry, stay and residence:...

Mapping of restrictions on the entry, stay and residence of people living...

Putting People First: The AIDS response in Asia and the Pacific

Reducing HIV Stigma and Discrimination: a critical part of national AIDS...