Taking Action Against HIV and AIDS

Handbook for parliamentarians. — № 15. — United Nations development programms. Inter-Parliamentary Union. — 2007. — 280 p.This Handbook is both a call to action for parliamentary leadership and a reference book to which parliamentarians and their staff may turn for information and guidance on specific issues of importance in the response to HIV.
The Handbook provides many illustrations of good practice by legislatures and gives examples of leadership by individual parliamentarians. It pays tribute to the personal and political courage of parliamentarians all around the world who have spoken out about the gravity and exceptional nature of HIV and about how their own lives have been affected by the epidemic. Members of parliament have mobilized resources to help achieve universal access to comprehensive HIV services, and they have helped to defend the human rights of people living with HIV and key vulnerable groups – women and girls, children orphaned or affected by AIDS, sex workers, people who use drugs, men who have sex with men, and prisoners – whose active engagement is central to a successful AIDS response.