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Indonesian human rights group call for non-discrimination of people living with HIV

19 September 2009

In August, Indonesia hosted the 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP IX). In Indonesia, people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHAs) have for too long stigmatized and discriminated for their illness. The Indonesian National AIDS Commission (KPAN) has to play a more active role in ensuring that not just AIDS is reduced, but beyond that that PLHAs will no longer be stigmatized and discriminated against. A human rights based-approach in its National Strategy would be a good starting point for combating HIV/AIDS and the human rights violations which surround it. See attached article published in CAVEAT(Vol.3, August 2009), a monthly human rights analysis newsletter published by the Community Legal Aid Institute (LBH Masyarakat) in Jakarta, Indonesia.