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The Forum is pleased to release this statement with its Member Parliaments and partners on the occasion of World AIDS Day 2024. In this regard, the Forum fully associates itself with the theme developed by the international community, including the World Health Organisation around the slogan of "Take the rights path: my health! my right!".

Indeed, the Forum adds its voice to the critical need for a rights based approach to address HIV/AIDS policy, in particular to ensure the mainstreaming of legal concepts such as the equality of treatment under the law and non discrimination in view of consolidating the protection of People Living With HIV (PLWH). The rights based approach to HIV/AIDS policy also means that health should be regarded as a fundamental human right, with treatment by the intake of essential medicines such as ARVs being available and affordable to all. Undeniably, HIV treatment forms part of the core content of the right to health and it should progressively be regarded as a justiciable right.