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The European Court of Human Rights has rejected an HIV-positive Ugandan woman’s claim to stay in the UK.
Deborah Jack Chief Executive of the National AIDS Trust comments:
“The decision to send an HIV-positive woman back to Uganda is a setback for human rights. Once someone is given treatment for HIV, any change or interruption to that treatment is life threatening. To return someone to a country where treatment is not accessible can mean in effect a death sentence.
This case highlights the desperate inequalities that exist in the accessibility of HIV treatment around the world and the urgent need to ensure that HIV care is rolled out internationally; just because a country has drugs does not mean that everyone in that country can access them, let alone pay for them1.
Health is a basic human right and for people living with HIV that means access to treatment.”