Track F Rapporteur Report Policy, Law, Human Rights, Political Science

Track F Rapporteur ReportPolicy, Law,Human Rights, Political Science

Rapporteur Team • Damon Barrett (Ireland/UK) • Rebecca Schleifer (US) • Simona Merkinaite (Lithuania) • Eka Iakobishvili (Georgia) • Alan Msosa (South Africa) • FelicitaHikuam (Namibia) • S'khumbuzo Maphumulo (South Africa) • Dan Allman (Canada)

Track F Stats • Rapporteur team attended over 50 sessions (Plenary, oral abstract, oral poster, special, symposium, bridging, satellite, global village) • 45 oral abstracts • 36 oral poster abstracts • BUT – many abstracts from other tracks with human rights content (major strength of the conference!)

“We can’t continue to have the same discussions about human rights abuses, stigma and discrimination without in the next breath, saying what to do about it and demanding that funding goes to community, rights based solutions” Susan Timberlake, UNAIDS

Access to medicines • TRIPS (managing the hydra) • International drug control system (similar issues) • ARVs (even more under threat) • OST • Opiates for pain • HCV treatment International National Community “Seven years on and we have one export under compulsory licence” Richard Elliott

Criminalisation • Refugees/asylum seekers • Drug use/possession • Sex work • HIV transmission/exposure • Abortion • SOGI, sexual rights! • Human rights defenders • Prisons, HIV and TB International National Community “Criminalisation does not work!” Michel Sidibe “Decriminalisation does!” Joao Goulao

Right to an adequate standard of living • Enabling environment • Housing • Sanitation • Education • Food security • Healthcare (incl. SRH) • Social welfare • Employment International National Community “Why would we give clean needles to dead drug users?” David MacDonald

Accountability • Empowerment and accountability are symbiotic • Investment in capacity! • GIPA • How to involve criminalised groups? • How to involve youth? • Donor accountability (national, bilateral, multilateral) • Healthcare staff International National Community “GIPA is investment in PLHIV” Julian Hows

Data collection • Knowing the epidemic REQUIRES rights based analysis – only then can you have a rights based approach • Rights-based indicators – what evidence counts? • ‘Hidden populations’ are not hidden by choice • Gender based violence • Police violence • Stigma International National Community “We need a modelling armistice – let’s collect some data!” Bernard Hirschel

Achievement of rights to the maximum of available resources • ‘AIDS is not in recession’ • Innovative financing mechanisms • Non-discrimination & neglected populations (e.g. disability, women) • Re-directing from failed policies and approaches International National Community “Three cents a day is not enough” Professor Gerry Stimson

Right to benefit from scientific progress and its applications • Microbicides (same threats as existing technologies) • ARV generics • Treatment as prevention (but must be human rights compliant) • Harm reduction • Social sciences International National Community “Conducting re-trials on human subjects in unethical!” KhalilElouardighi

The message from AIDS 2010 is clear Over 12,500 people say: It is time to count the costs of the war on drugs

What do we want to see in two years? • Funding for rights based programming • Human rights knowledge informing public health programmes • More conference content on creating an enabling environment • Planning now to ensure barriers to attendance are removed • Maxim Popov, Alaei brothers LONG RELEASED

During the conference… • Two billion dollars were spent on the war on drugs • 3,000 contracted HIV in EECA • Russia reasserted its opposition to harm reduction (while preparations were made for a Russian government official to take the reins at UNODC) BUT • Namibia announced removal of travel restrictions • Argentina legalised same sex marriage

Track F Rapporteur Report Policy, Law, Human Rights, Political Science