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International Law

Abstract

The struggle against the crisis of HIV/AIDS turned a corner in the last year or two with the emergence of a strong and coherent global movement in favor of access to treatment for all persons with the disease. Inequity of treatment access between rich and poor countries has been a feature of the pandemic since use of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs emerged as a standard response to AIDS in wealthy countries in the mid-1990s. It is only more recently that the combination of an active campaign by non-governmental organizations,' the model of a statesponsored program in Brazil that provides generic ARV drugs to all persons with HIV/AIDS,2 clarity on the real costs of developing and testing ARV drugs,3 and aggressive marketing by generic ARV manufacturers have led to discussions of wider ARV availability in low-income countries as a realistic possibility.

The purpose of this paper is to make an additional human rights argument for access to treatment of HIV/AIDS by demonstrating the connections between access to treatment and both (1) the realization of other human rights related to HIV/AIDS and (2) the protection from certain human rights abuses.

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