Campaign non-discrimination on HIV and AIDS.
Spain, 2011-June it is estimated that there are more than 33 million people living with HIV worldwide. Many of them at some point in life have experienced some form of discrimination associated with their condition as a rejection of his own family or your circle of friends, a job loss, denial of housing, loss of custody of their sons and daughters, degrading treatment in health care or limitation of freedom of movement, among other violations of their rights.
For this reason, serving 30 years of the pandemic, the Observatory of human rights and HIV/AIDS (REDVIH) launched the campaign non-discrimination on HIV and AIDS ” in order to continue raising awareness to society in general and hold accountable public institutions on a situation that affects thousands of people in our country and millions around the world.
The campaign includes an initiative to collect signatures until December 1, 2011, World AIDS Day, which can join all those people who want to ask our political representatives concrete actions to counter discrimination in the form of laws and effective mechanisms for its implementation.
signatures via the Internet at Change.org and will, once the time of collection, they will be sent to the Government Spanish to urge him to not lower our guard nor reduce the resources in its commitment to eradicate the stigma and discrimination associated with HIV and AIDS.
In addition to the collection of signatures creative communication actions will be made to to publicize the initiative and collect the maximum number of accessions. It bears particularly on the use of social networks, like Facebook, where she is Iran hanging photographs of the campaign. Furthermore, it was decided to make the release coinciding with the National Congress of AIDS, which will be held in Zaragoza from 15 to 17 June, to gather photographs of activists and personalities in the response to HIV and AIDS.
the image of the logo has been a gift of designer Otto Hugo Lerma, creative girl who considers it a way to support its work to eradicate discrimination against people with HIV and urged that more people will join this.
The Observatory of human rights and HIV was established in 2003 as a project of the community network on HIV / AIDS in the Spanish State (REDVIH), with the goals of addressing HIV-related stigma and discrimination, visible cases of violation of rights and raise awareness about this situation. To this end, among other activities, it offers free confidential legal advice service. Anyone who lives in Spain and consider that it has received discriminatory treatment related to HIV, can contact the service by e-mail (observatorio@redvih.org) or phone 607 733 411.
This project is funded by the Plan Nacional of the AIDS of the Ministry of health, Social Affairs and equality, and by the Ajuntament de Barcelona.
