Law and Legal Policy

India has written constitution that recognizes a range of fundamental rights. However these rights are potentially quiet broad in their application to many of the issues that arise in context of the HIV epidemic. There is a great deal of legislation which pre-dates the HIV epidemic,as a result, it now affects the legal rights of People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), often with anomalous and undesirable consequences. There is also a vast array of penal provisions relating to sex between men, injecting drug use and sex work, which have an immediate and harmful impact on the spread of HIV, the efforts to contain it, and the rights of those affected.


Access to Health Care
Privacy and Confidentiality
Employment
Gender Discrimination And Family Law
Police Powers and Public Security
Men who have Sex with Men (MSM)
Drug Use
Sex Work