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Remarks by Miriam Maluwa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Miriam Maluwa*
Affiliation:
UNAIDS, Geneva, Switzerland

Abstract

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Type
AIDS in National and International Law
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2002

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References

1 Article 25 of Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Article 12 of International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Articles 24 and 25 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

2 See Unaids Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic, July 2002, UNAIDS/02.26E.

3 Most of the core treaties, covenants, and conventions were adopted by the General Assembly before AIDS was discovered: Universal Declaration on Human Rights, adopted Dec. 10, 1948, GA Res. 217A (III); Convention Against Torture, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment, adopted Dec. 10, 1984, GA Res. 39/46; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, adopted Dec. 16, 1966, GA Res. 2200 (XXI), UN Doc. A/6316, entered into force Mar. 23, 1976); International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, adopted Dec. 16, 1966, GA Res. 2200 (XXI), UN Doc. A/6316; International Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, adopted Dec. 18, 1979, GA Res. 34/160 (entered into force Sept. 3,1981); Convention on the Rights of the Child (adopted June 26, 1981).

4 UN Doc. E/CN.4/RES/1999/49; UN Doc. E/CN.4/RES/2001/51.

5 General Comment 14: Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health, UN Doc. E/C.12/200/4, adopted May 11, 2000.

6 UN Doc. E/CN.4/RES/2001/33; UN Doc. E/CN.4/RES/2002/32.

7 UN General Assembly “Declaration of Commitment to HIV/AIDS” adopted by UN Doc. A/RES/S-26/2.

8 Ibid., para 55.

9 Ibid.

10 400 Republic of South Africa Government Gazette Cape Town 1937, Oct. 19, 1998, available at <http://www.saweb.co.za/labour/ecca55098.html>.

11 Family Health International, 1998, Improving Access to Antiretroviral Therapy to Latin America: Impact on AIDS 1, at <http://www.fhi.org/co/aids/impact/ichiv/johll/ichib.html>.