Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner
for Human Rights
UNAIDS
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
World Health Organization, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/ AIDS,
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2003
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WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
HIV/AIDS - stand up for human rights.
l.HIV infections - psychology 2. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome - psychology S.Prejudice
4.Human rights 5.Popular works 6.Cartoons
I. World Health Organization II.UNAIDS III. United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for
Human Rights.
ISBN 92 4 159114 5
Responsible Units:
Helena Nygren-Krug
Health and Human Rights Adviser,
Department of Ethics, Trade, Human
Rights and Law (ETH)
Sustainable Development and Healthy
Environments (SDE)
World Health Organization (WHO)
www.who.int/hhr
Christina Meinecke
Associate Human Rights Officer
Anti-Discrimination Unit
Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights
(OHCHR)
www.unhchr.ch
Miriam Maluwa
Law and Human Rights Adviser
Office of the Director
Department of Social Mobilisation
and Information
Joint United Nations Programme on
HIVIAIDS (UNAIDS)
www.unaids.org
Scenario:
Ian 6rubb, Bebe Loff ,
Miriam Maluwa, Christina Meinecke,
Helena Nygren-Krug and
Tanya Norton.
Drawings:
Mohamed Aouamri
Printed in France.
Thanks for comments, suggestions and other input: Theresita Bagasao, Colin Bailey, Anjana Bhushan,
Maria Monica Bolis, Dominique Bush, Alex Capron, Andrew Cassels, Marie-Claude Chartier, Yves Charpak,
La Chataigneraie School, Nathalie Drew, Fatimah Elawa, Manuela Enwerem, Stu Flavell, Peter Ghys, Asako
Hattori, Catherine Howse, Robert Husbands, Elena Ippoliti, Gesa Kupfer, B.S.Lamba, Paulo Lyra, David
Miller, Mono Al-Modhwahi, Lisa Oldring, David Patterson, Annette Peters, Majeda Sabha, Andy Seale,
Winnie Mpanju - Shumbusho, Lene Wendland, Elena Wright, Isabelle De Zoysa.
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