HIV/AIDS

Watch HCLU's video on the fantastic March for Human Rights at AIDS 2010, that mobilized 20 thousand people in Vienna!

Needle exchange programs in the US - watch our movie to learn how harm reduction protects communities from death and disease!

On the eve of World AIDS Day, the HCLU organized a demonstration in front of the Hungarian Ministry of Health to light candles in memory of the victims of AIDS.  The demonstration was also to demand that the Ministry of Health and the National AIDS Commission fulfill their mandates as outlined by international documents and the National AIDS Strategy; and to communicate that the present favorable epidemiological situation should not be left to mere luck, but be the result of a well-planned and delivered strategy.

Moscow protest to pay tribute to the victims of drug policies disbanded by police

Harm reduction in Russia is on the verge of collapse - watch our video made at the Moscow AIDS confernce

 As of June 1, 2009, when applying for a work or residency permit in the Czech Republic, one has to enclose a medical certificate to prove that the applicant is not suffering from syphilis, tuberculosis, and is not HIV-positive. This new regulation does not uniformly apply to all countries; Congo, Kenya, Moldavia, Mongolia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, the Ukraine and Vietnam are among the countries the regulation specifies.

In Hungary anonymous, voluntary and free HIV-tests is enacted by the law. The staff of HCLU and volunteers visisted several VCT-centres to check the practice. What we found are prolems, cotroversary and illegality.

For the occassion, 25 leading AIDS organizations are calling for changes in the global fight against AIDS. A joint Declaration, listing 10 reasons why human rights needs to be placed in the center of the global struggle against AIDS has been issued. Click on for the Declaration!

Fighting AIDS can only be effective with involving sex workers.

Civil society groups from around the world denounced the final UN Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS, released after marathon negotiations during the UN High Level meeting on AIDS this week.