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The AIDS Pandemic and Human Rights

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Abstract

The first decade of the AIDS pandemic1 ended in June 1991 with the tenth anniversary of the first cases of AIDS diagnosed in the USA.2 The spread of AIDS, HIV infection3 and its history4 have been well described. Accounts of the response to AIDS by different countries, and its impact on various communities and populations are numerous, and this text does not aim to add to them. Rather it is confined to one specific and distinct aspect of AIDS: the challenge it represents to human rights and the extent to which this challenge has been met, if at all.

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