The violation of the rights of HIV/AIDS affected persons
"With an open heart,
Let's rise an speak to the world…" (HIV/AIDS infected person)
The National Union of HIV/AIDS Affected/Infected People's Organizations (UNOPA) is organizing this year, with the support of UNICEF, the project "Advocacy for Human Rights in the HIV/AIDS context". In this project, UNOPA presents you with the first monitoring rapport regarding the situation of the observation of the HIV/AIDS infected people, in the March-May 2003 period.
This rapport aims to:
present objective, viable and comparable information, from the point of view of the national standards regarding the rights of HIV/AIDS infected people;
analyze the current situation regarding the violation of the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS;
reintroduce in the public debate the relation between Human Rights and HIV/AIDS, in the sense of reducing the social vulnerability of people living with HIV/AIDS to this malady of stigmata and discrimination;
prove that people living with HIV/AIDS are actors in the fight against this epidemic and their immediate experience can be considered as a valuable and specific component in tackling the HIV/AIDS problem;
be the starting point for a more elaborate research, comprising a broader spectrum of problems confronted by people living with HIV/AIDS in Romania.
The research realized by UNOPA, between March-May 2003, combined two types of monitoring: monitoring the situation (with the accent on the situation in general) and the monitoring of cases (centered on victims of rights violations). Persons living with HIV/AIDS, from within UNOPA conducted field inquiries regarding the registering of the right's violations.
In this research there were mainly analyzed:
403 cases of violation of the HIV/AIDS patient's right to treatment and medical services;
622 cases of violation of the rights of disabled (HIV/AIDS infected) children to special protection;
280 cases of violation of the revenue rights of the severely disabled (HIV/AIDS) child's personal assistant;
82 cases of violating the rights of disabled adults (HIV/AIDS) to special protection.
The present monitoring rapport is not an academic research, nor a study about the social impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, but, more likely, an x-ray of the daily problems confronting the HIV/AIDS infected people in Romania.
Some of the aspects observed in this rapport are intended to be, in our opinion, AN ALARM SIGNAL for the decision-making institutions involved in creating and implementing public policies in the HIV/AIDS sector.
We are hoping this monitoring rapport, which will be disseminated to all the decisional factors in the HIV/AIDS domain, will be able to document decisions/ measures regarding the improvement of the status of the people living with HIV/AIDS in Romania.
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