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I will choose number four, which is:
“The worst affected receive the least attention in national responses to ***.”
That is something that we have been, in my organisation, pushing for
And it is about involvement and the need to
involve those who are most at risk and those who are most affected
in the response;
not only at the receiving end of the service,
but also in the design, in the implementation, in the delivery,
in the monitoring, in the evaluation and, of course, as receivers of the service.
Particularly, they understand what is needed,
how it is needed, where is it needed.
We have seen that by involving
the gay population, sex workers, men who have sex with men, people who use drugs,
women, prisoners and migrants
– there is a whole list of who is most affected.
It will change by country, it will change by region
– but by involving them in policy-making,
setting targets for universal access, we can see an improvement of the outcome.
We can see, for example, in the universal access target setting process,
that in countries where these key populations where meaningfully involved
– because it is not only about involvement,
being part of a meeting and raising your hand
– meaningfully involved, the targets that were set were better.
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