Student Advocacy
Students Taking Action on Global AIDS
THE HEALTH ACTION AIDS CAMPAIGN
The HIV/AIDS pandemic is arguably the greatest health crisis of our time. PHR's Health Action AIDS Campaign mobilizes health professionals to support a comprehensive AIDS strategy and advocates for unprecedented funds to combat the disease.AIDS Is a Human Rights Issue
Twenty-five million men, women and children have died and 38.6 million people are now infected with HIV. Each day, more than 11,200 new infections emerge and 7,600 people die from the disease. Worse, infectious disease epidemiologists concur that HIV/AIDS is still in its early and middle stages in most countries, and that without immediate large-scale action, the pandemic will spiral further out of control.
The HIV/AIDS pandemic represents much more than these catastrophic health statistics. Economic deprivation, denial of health care to the poor, and failure to assure the right to privacy are both causes and effects of the pandemic. Social, economic, educational and political inequality for women and girls--who are often deprived of the ability to control their sexual and economic activities--is also at the root of the pandemic. Widespread discrimination against children, men who have sex with men, sex workers and their clients, injection drug users, persons confined to institutions and prisons, refugees and internally displaced persons also fuel the disease.
As HIV/AIDS spreads in Africa, Asia and parts of Europe, it destabilizes entire regions, thwarting political, social and economic development. HIV/AIDS is a product of, and a factor exacerbating, pervasive violations of human rights. International assistance and cooperation are imperatives of human rights, as set out in international human rights law.
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