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I can give you more than one example of how rights are violated in the context
of *** and otherwise, and how people because of that violation,
become even more vulnerable to ***.
There are well-known examples of
NGOs working with men who have sex with men,
whose work has been disrupted because law allowed it to happen in India
until recently.
*** was criminalised,
so anyone working with gay men, distributing condoms, etc...,
was also criminalised.
They were supporting that kind of *** activity and therefore,
they were also criminals.
So you had an AIDS policy, on the one hand, that allowed this work to happen,
And on the other hand, you had the law which did not.
And you often saw police coming in,
raiding NGOs, locking up people without
any access to justice for days on end.
This is a regular story also in terms of sex workers in India.
It happens all the time with drug users too.
So, there are many instances of
these kinds of violations
and it even happens to *** positive children,
who are removed from school because the other parents
do not want their children to sit in the same classroom.
So, I mean it is across a variety of issues
and that is the kind of thing that really needs support,
because it is based on fear, it is based on ignorance,
it is [not] based on science, and not on a clear understanding of how
actually the best way to
to help control the epidemic is to protect people,
instead of to arrest them or lock them up, etc.
For further information on Human Rights, ***/AIDS,
and to endorse "Now More than Ever: the joint statement,"
visit www.HIVhumanRIGHTSnow.org
Transcribed by Arielle Reid Subtitled by Hunter Holliman