Human Rights Under Threat: Four Perspectives in HIV, AIDS and the Law in Southern AfricaThe book covers the following: legislation criminalising the wilful transmission of HIV; policies aimed at routinely testing individuals attending public health facilities; policies and practices aimed at withholding or denying access to HIV- related treatment and prevention to people living with HIV, particularly men in prisons; and policies, practices and laws that limit access to medicines, in particular the lack of domestication and use of flexibilities allowed for under the World Trade Organisations Agreement on the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). |
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Page 49 - All persons shall be equal before the courts and tribunals. In the determination of any criminal charge against him, or of his rights and obligations in a suit at law, everyone shall be entitled to a fair and public hearing by a competent, independent and impartial tribunal established by law.
Page 101 - The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.
Page 70 - Article 12 1 The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. 2 The steps to be taken by the States Parties to the present Covenant to achieve the full realization of this right shall include those necessary for...
Page 150 - In view of the special needs and requirements of least-developed country Members, their economic, financial and administrative constraints, and their need for flexibility to create a viable technological base, such Members shall not be required to apply the provisions of this Agreement, other than Articles 3, 4 and 5, for a period of 10 years from the date of application as defined under paragraph 1 of Article 65.
Page 178 - Institutions; d) develop policies aimed at the progressive elimination of obstacles to the free movement of capital and labour, goods and services, and of the peoples of the Region generally, among Member States...
Page 138 - A party may not invoke the provisions of its internal law as justification for its failure to perform a treaty.
Page 115 - Article 16 1. Every individual shall have the right to enjoy the best attainable state of physical and mental health. 2. States parties to the present Charter shall take the necessary measures to protect the health of their people and to ensure that they receive medical attention when they are sick.
Page 97 - Public health is what we, as a society, do collectively to assure the conditions for people to be healthy.
Page 115 - Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment...
Page 113 - The medical services should be organised in close relation with the general health administration of the community or nation. They shall include a psychiatric service for the diagnosis and, in proper cases, the treatment of states of mental abnormality. 2. Sick prisoners who require specialist treatment shall be transferred to specialised institutions or to civil hospitals. Where hospital facilities are provided in an institution, their equipment, furnishings and pharmaceutical supplies shall be...