Rights at risk
Subtitle: state response to HIV in Mississippi
Contributors: Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 59
ISBN-13: 9781564327451
Subjects: Human rights; Human Rights; Government policy; Psychology; HIV-positive persons; Sex instruction for teenagers; Social conditions; Services for; Public Policy; HIV Infections; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Care
Other titles: State response to HIV in Mississippi; United States, rights at risk
Description: This 59-page report documents the harmful impact of Mississippi's policies on state residents, including people living with HIV and those at high risk of contracting it. Mississippi refuses to provide complete, accurate information about HIV prevention to students and threatens criminal penalties for failing to disclose one's HIV status to sexual partners. At the same time, Mississippi provides little or no funding for HIV prevention, housing, transportation, or prescription drug programs for people living with HIV, and the state fails to take full advantage of federal subsidies to bolster these programs. In Mississippi, half of people testing positive for the virus are not receiving treatment, a rate comparable to that in Botswana, Ethiopia, and Rwanda.
Notes: Researched and written by Megan McLemore--Acknowledgements.

"March 2011"--P. following t.p. verso.

A Human Rights Watch report.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available via the Internet on the Human Rights Watch web site.
Table of contents: title: Executive summary; title: Recommendations; title: Methodology; title: Background; title: Findings; title: Human rights obligations; title: Conclusion; title: Acknowledgements.