Here you will find resources that focus on Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention, which provides an alternative to the overly broad use of the criminal law to regulate and punish people living with HIV.  [Please note, this section is still under development]

Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention highlights the importance of placing the person living with HIV at the centre of managing their health and wellbeing.  Among other things, this takes us beyond the much more limited concept of “positive prevention” which focuses only on people living with HIV “preventing” the transmission of HIV.

In contrast, Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention stresses the importance of addressing prevention and treatment simultaneously and holistically. It also emphasises the leadership of people living with HIV in responding to policy and legal barriers within the socio-cultural and legal context in which they live and in driving the agenda forward toward better health and dignity.

This new framework, developed by the Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+) and UNAIDS, recognises that the public health and human rights goal of preventing new HIV infections can only be achieved when the human, sexual, and reproductive rights of people living with HIV are protected and supported; when the broader health and dignity needs of people living with HIV are met; and when access to timely and uninterrupted treatment and care encourages greater uptake of voluntary counselling and testing.