GNP+ Actualités et Positions

Violation of human rights and breaches of medical confidentiality by the Greek Police and Health Authorities

Mardi, 15 Mai 2012 16:16

Joint news release GNP+ and NSWP

As part of a Government authorised crackdown on hundreds of unlicensed brothels around Greece, sex workers are being arrested, submitted to forced HIV testing and facing criminal charges without recourse to due process, as well as being publically identified in the media.

As a result of these actions women are to face prosecution on charges of intentionally causing grievous bodily harm merely because they are HIV positive. There is no proof of exposure or transmission to others nor is it clear that any of these women knew their HIV status prior to this test. They are facing further charges for misdemeanours related to alleged illegal prostitution.

GNP+ welcomes new WHO Couple HIV Testing and Counselling Guidelines

Mercredi, 25 Avril 2012 16:02

The Global Network of People living with HIV welcomes the release of the World Health Organization’s “Guidance on Couples HIV Testing and Counselling and Antiretroviral Therapy for Treatment (ART) and Prevention in Serodiscordant Couples: Recommendations for a public health approach”. The new Guidance recommends increased offering of HIV testing and counselling to couples, with support for mutual disclosure. Other recommendations include offering antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV prevention to HIV-discordant couples.

GNP+ supports the specific attention paid in the Guidance to the sexual and reproductive health and rights of serodiscordant couples. Following a study amongst HIV-discordant couples conducted in 2009[i], GNP+ concluded that the needs of HIV-discordant couples have received insufficient attention in the research and policy agenda.

World TB Day 2012: GNP+ calls for a client centered approach to TB diagnosis, treatment and care

Vendredi, 23 Mars 2012 12:09

24 March, 2012: The Global Network of People living with HIV (GNP+) recognises this World TB Day, the annual day to focus attention on tuberculosis, by calling for a paradigm shift to address the world’s leading cause of death for people living with HIV.

According to the World Health Organization, tuberculosis (TB) is responsible for one in four HIV-related deaths. Globally, around one third of all people living with HIV also have TB. While people living with HIV, and especially children, are 21-34 times more likely to develop active TB due to a weakened immune response, the loss of 350,000 people living with HIV in 2010[i] to a curable disease is unacceptable.

International Woman’s Day 2012: GNP+ calls for more protection of women’s and girls’ rights in the HIV response

Jeudi, 08 Mars 2012 16:23

8 March 2012 - The Global Network of people living with HIV (GNP+) urges all stakeholders in the HIV response to better utilize opportunities to promote the health and dignity of women and girls, living with and affected by HIV.

“A lot more can be done to promote women´s and girls´ rights as part of the HIV response,” says GNP+ co-chair Anna Zakowicz.

APN+: EU-India FTA being negotiated at the cost of patients lives

Vendredi, 10 Février 2012 10:34

APN+ strongly condemns the EU’s deadly trade policies

10 February 2012, Bangkok – At the Annual General Meeting of the Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV (APN+), the APN+ Board strongly condemned the European Union’s continuing attacks on generic medicines through the EU-India FTA negotiations. At the EU-India Summit being held in New Delhi today, the EU is pressuring the Indian government to announce political “trade-offs” for the FTA negotiations.

“On the 3^rd of February we took empty ARV bottles to the European Commission’s office to show them what the result of the EU-India FTA would be,” said Mr Sudin Sherchan of the National Association of People Living with HIV in Nepal. Since 2007, the EU-India FTA negotiations have become increasingly controversial as leaked texts of the negotiations show that the EU is pushing India to adopt intellectual property protection standards far in excess of what is required under the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).