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ADDRESSING HIV/AIDS RELATED DISCRIMINATION IN ETHIOPIA: POSSIBLE AREAS FOR LEGAL INTERVENTION |
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Author: Teshager Dagne Date of Publication: 2007-04-05 Summary: <font face="Myriad Roman, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;" size="2">AIDS has recently been the most discussed and controversial public health issue in the world. With an estimate of 30-36 million people suffering from the disease at the end of 2007, it appears that the World's attention will continue to focus on this disease well into the twenty-first century. Estimates are that 1.32 million Ethiopians in total were infected with HIV by the year 2005. This means that a great host of people in the country could already have experienced some form of discrimination based on their HIV status, and that many more have the potential of becoming vulnerable to rejection, stigma and prejudice once their status becomes known to others.<br />This paper examines the human rights situation of People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in some selected cities of Ethiopia by tracing to empirical evidences on the nature, forms and extent of HIV/AIDS related discrimination. It analyzes the empirical data on various manifestations of HIV/AIDS related discrimination and explores possible areas for legal intervention and policy formulation in the country's domestic legal framework. </font> Link to Publication: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1356575 Other publications by Teshager Dagne |
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