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Combating AIDS: The Human Rights Perspective
December 10, 2002
Mary Robinson UN Commissioner, Human Rights
Eric Sawyer founder, ACT UP, New York
Paul Farmer physician, anthropologist
George Muwanguzi director, Health Rights Action, Uganda
Sandra Thurman president, CEO, International AIDS Trust

This forum examines HIV/AIDS as a human rights crisis On December 10, Human Rights Day, 54 years after the 1948 adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the General Assembly of the United Nations.

HIV/AIDS has become the greatest health crisis in human history. To date, 21 years into the AIDS pandemic, 25 million people have lost their lives and 40 million are currently living with HIV. Every day, there are 15,000 new infections and 8,200 deaths reported. Of the 28 million people in sub-Saharan Africa living with AIDS, 58% are women aged 15-49. The disease is halting economic development, unraveling communities, and destabilizing societies.

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Image of A Voice for Human Rights (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
Author: Mary Robinson
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press (2007)
Binding: Paperback, 456 pages
Image of Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California Series in Public Anthropology, 4)
Author: Paul Farmer
Publisher: University of California Press (2004)
Binding: Paperback, 438 pages
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Author: Paul Farmer
Publisher: University of California Press (2001)
Binding: Paperback, 419 pages
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Author: Paul Farmer
Publisher: University of California Press (2006)
Binding: Paperback, 372 pages
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