Fighting against AIDS: Acting for human rights and development
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Table of Contents
- Introduction.
- Human rights at the heart of the fight against HIV/AIDS.
- The contribution of AIDS programs in development and human rights advances.
- Conclusion.
- References.
Abstract
If developing countries have to cope with many handicaps setbacks as well as in terms of political development, then one of the main plagues that seriously affects these countries is the HIV/aids epidemic. Indeed, 40 million people worldwide are infected with HIV. Among them, 95% live in developing countries. HIV/aids has killed more than twenty million people worldwide in the past twenty five years, and aids is the leading cause of death in Africa and the fourth most prominent cause of death worldwide. More precisely, women are increasingly infected by HIV/aids, representing 57% of the persons infected, and thirteen million children are orphaned by HIV/aids. In an effort to fight this outbreak, organizations of people are mobilizing to bring an efficient response to the consequences of the infection, and to slow down and reverse the spread of the disease.
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