Decriminalisation and the end of AIDS: keep the promise, follow the science, and fulfill human rights
A statement from the UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights stating that criminal laws violate a variety of human rights, including the rights to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, non-discrimination, privacy, autonomy, dignity, freedom of expression, freedom from arbitrary detention, and ultimately the right to life, among others and calls for States to take proactive measures to end such practices and abolish the underlying criminalisation.