South Africa: Health Professional Action: “I am at the lowest end of all” - Rural women living with HIV face human rights abuses in South Africa

South Africa: Health Professional Action: “I am at the lowest end of all” - Rural women living with HIV face human rights abuses in South Africa

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Index Number: AFR 53/004/2008
Date Published: 27 March 2008
Categories: South Africa

In its response to the HIV epidemic and to discrimination and violence against women, the Government of South Africa has obligations under both national law and international human rights law to eliminate all forms of discrimination, including on the grounds of gender, sexuality or economic status, in the realization of the right to health.