“We struggle to know the shape of an effective and sustainable response to HIV/AIDS. It is perhaps simpleminded, but still, I think, crucial to suggest that we cannot succeed in fi nding an effective response if our analyses of HIV/AIDS are separate or abstract from the real-life situations of those who stand most directly in the destructive path of this disease. The images of their lives must be real to us…”
Address to a panel discussion at the United Nations 2006 High-Level Meeting on AIDS
Author
Joanne Csete, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Topics
2SLGBTQ+ Rights, Drug Policy, Prisons, Sex Work, Testing, Women’s Rights
Language
English, French