New UN handbook aims to help countries in Asia-Pacific respond to AIDS

Countries in the Asia-Pacific region received a new United Nations handbook that focuses on the role of human rights in responding to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Produced by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the Handbook on HIV and Human Rights is designed to assist the region’s national human rights institutions to integrate HIV into their human rights mandates. For more information, please click here.