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The HIV/AIDS Pandemic and Human Security

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Noah Benjamin Novogrodsky
Noah Benjamin Novogrodsky*
Affiliation:
International Human Rights Program, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
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The HIV/AIDS Pandemic and the Role of International Law
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 100 , 2006 , pp. 345 - 350
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2006

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References

1 UNAIDS Annual Report, Nov. 21, 2005, available at <http://www.unaids.org>.

2 Barnett, Tony & Whiteside, Alan, Aids in the Twenty-First Century: Disease and Globalization 160 (2002)Google Scholar.

3 Alan Whiteside, “Aids? A Darwinian Event?” Presentation at the Centre for International Health, Faculty of Medicine and Hart House, University of Toronto, Jan. 18, 2006.

4 The African State and the AlĐS Crisis 4-5 (Amy Patterson ed., 2005).

5 Stephen Lewis, Race Against Time 52 (2005).

6 Id. at 59.

7 Id. at 188.

8 United Nations Economic and Social Council, General Comments, UN Doc. E/C. 12/2000/4. (Aug. 11, 2000).

9 See Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Revised Guideline 6 on Access to Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support, July 2002; UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 3: HIV/AIDS and the Rights of the Child, March 2003. Significantly, the African Human Rights Commission has not directly examined the consequences of the pandemic.

10 See, e.g., Cruz Bermudez et al v. Ministerio de Sanidad Asistencia Social, Case No. 15789 (Venez. 1999).

11 See Minister of Health et al. v. Treatment Action Campaign, (5) SA 721 (Cc), 2002 10 BCLR 1033 (2002).

12 See Krause, Keith & Williams, Michael C., Broadening the Agenda of Security Studies: Politics and Methods, 40(2) MershonInt’l Stud. Rev. 229 (1996)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Kanti Bajpai, Human Security: Concept and Measurement, Kroc Inst. Occasional Paper #19: OP:l, Aug. 2000.

13 International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, The Responsibility to Protect (2001), available at <http://www.iciss.ca>.

14 Mann, Jonathan M. Medicine and Public Health, Ethics and Human Rights, 27 Hastings Ctr. Rep. 6-13 (1997)CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed; Health and Human Rights: A Reader 54-72 (Gruskin, Sofia, Mann, Jonathan M. & Grodin, Michael A., eds., 1999)Google Scholar; Aids in the World II: Global Dimensions, Social Roots, and Responses (Mann, Jonathan M. & Tarantola, Daniel J. M., eds., 1996)Google Scholar.

15 See Gostin, Lawrence, Public Health, Ethics and Human Rights: A Tribute to the Late Jonathan Mann, 28 J. L. Med. & Ethics 121-30 (2001)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

16 MSF generally treats patients in places like the Democratic Republic of Congo, where no healthcare infrastructure exists or where the local population cannot afford treatment.