Costa Rica has joined the Global Partnership for Action to Eliminate all Forms of HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination. At a United Nations High-Level Meeting on AIDS side event on 7 June, the Vice President of Costa Rica, Epsy Campbell Barr, emphasized the country’s commitment to human rights by highlighting that a comprehensive and effective HIV response needs to include
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Inequalities and human rights barriers, which have been magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic, are preventing progress towards ending AIDS as a global public health threat by 2030. They facilitate the transmission of HIV by increasing vulnerability to HIV and limiting access to health services, particularly for gay men and other men who have sex with men, transgender people, people who use drugs, sex workers, women and girls.
Ending inequalities is both a human rights imperative and a public health necessity. Yet, despite repeated commitments, human rights barriers that drive inequalities, such as stigma, discrimination, violence and punitive laws, continue to undermine the HIV response.
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The Global Partnership for Action to Eliminate all Forms of HIV-related Stigma and Discrimination
The Global Partnership for Action to Eliminate all Forms of HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination (Global Partnership) was established in 2018 following a call to action by the nongovernmental organization delegation to the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB NGO Delegation). It is co-convened by UNAIDS, UN Women, the United Nations Development Programme, the Global Network of People Living with HIV, the PCB NGO Delegation and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. It is supported by a technical working group comprised of 10 United Nations agencies and 24 civil society organizations.