"Right to health, right to life" - High Level Meeting on HIV and Human Rights in the European Union and its neighbouring countries

Brussels

Brussels

The high-level meeting on HIV and Human Rights, co-organised by the European Commission and UNAIDS, is meant to promote and protect human rights and move towards zero discrimination for people living with or affected by HIV in the EU and neighbouring countries.

• Agenda of the meeting
• eNews: "High level meeting on HIV and Human Rights, 27-28 May, Brussels"
• Discussion paper - Right to Health, Right to Life: Why We Need to Act Now on HIV and Human Rights
• Picture gallery

Opening ceremony

• Speech by Commissioner Borg: "HIV AIDS and Human Rights: The urgent need to overcome stigma and discrimination"

Speeches and presentations

• Speech - Making laws right - promoting enabling legal frameworks for HIV and human rights
  Claudiu Ciprian TANASESCU
  Member of the European Parliament
• Speech - Health, HIV policies &Fight against discrimination
  Laurette Onkelinx
  Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Health and Social Affairs, Belgium
• Access to HIV prevention, treatment and care in Europe Barriers and solutions
  Roberto Bertollini MD MPH,
  Chief Scientist and WHO Representative to the EU, WHO Regional Office for Europe
• People living with HIV stigma index Estonia: advocacy initiatives and results
  Jekaterina Voinova, Igor Sobolev, Julian Hows
  The Estonian Network of PLWH (Global Network of People Living with HIV)
• Access to health for people who inject drugs (PWIDs) and prisoners in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) (Slide comments)
  Sergey Votyagov
  Eurasian Harm Reduction Network (EHRN)

Final recommendations

• Final recommendations by Yusef Azad, Director of Policy and Campaigns, NAT, United Kingdom