To fight HIV/AIDS is to fight poverty and inequality
Over forty million people around the world are infected with the HIV virus. Ninety percent of people with the HIV virus live in developing countries. Structural poverty is an important cause: being poor means not having access to care, information and medicines, but it also means not having a say in matters that help to improve quality of life. Hivos supports local organisations working on education, prevention and advocacy.
Hivos regards AIDS to be a matter of human rights and development, and as such as an issue that goes beyond the scope of healthcare. The rapid spread of the disease is caused by structural poverty, violations of universal human rights and social inequality.
Hivos supports large numbers of local organisations that champion the rights of people with HIV/AIDS and promote their full participation in society, and in particular organisations that advocate in the national and international arenas for the best possible information, prevention and access to medicines and care in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
An integrated approach is the key to success: no isolated campaigns, but campaigns that together form a logical unit. For example, prevention involves more than simply providing information. It also means ensuring that condoms are available. And a dignified existence for people with HIV/AIDS means not only providing proper care and medicines, but also fighting discrimination.
Hivos’ policy for HIV/AIDS focuses mainly on educating people, ensuring fair access to care and medicines, advocating for better policies and promoting emancipation. Hivos devotes extra attention to groups with an increased risk of infection: women, teenagers and young adults, immigrants and refugees, sexual minorities, men who have sex with men, and poor people in urban and rural areas.
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