Confronting Aids
Human Rights, Law, and Social Transformation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12440460 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Heywood (University of the Witwatersrand, corresponding author), D Altman (0000-0001-7823-5326) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 149-149 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health and Human Rights (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1079-0969 • E-ISSN: 2150-4113 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4065226 |
| PMID | 11154527 |
| OpenAlex | W89007295 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 6 |
This piece developed out of discussions between the authors at the 12th World AIDS Conference, held in Geneva in 1998. In the sessions on human rights, a number of delegates from Asia and Africa experienced some difficulty understanding how they could apply the primarily legal arguments of the UN's HIV/AIDS and Human Rights: International Guidelines to local conditions.' Particularly visible was a confusion about the relevance of international law as well as the difficulty associated with downloading a paradigm of human rights located in a Western legal framework into non-Western societies. The piece asserts the enormous importance of human rights issues to HIV prevention and care. It looks fleetingly
Biology · Gene · Human rights · International human rights law · Law and economics · Political science · Social change · Social rights · Social transformation · Sociology · Transformation (genetics · Human Rights and Development · Law · Genetics
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Sexual orientation and gender identity in Nepal
Globalisation and health inequalities
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,54 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2019 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |