HIV and AIDS on those affected and empowering individuals and communities to respond to HIV.

NGOs should implement the Guidelines within a broad framework of communication in terms of HIV and human rights, including the establishment of ongoing communication between the HIV community and the human rights community by:
(a) Establishing contacts at the international, regional and local levels between networks of ASOs, human rights NGOs, and people living with HIV.(b) Developing mechanism(s) for ongoing communication and dissemination and implementation of the Guidelines, such as a bulletin board and/or home page on the Internet allowing for input and exchange of information on human rights and HIV and database linkages between groups working on human rights and HIV;
(c) Networking with human rights NGOs at meetings of United Nations human rights bodies;
(d) Promoting discussion of the Guidelines in their newsletters and other publications, as well as through other media;
(e) Developing an action-oriented and accessible version(s) of the Guidelines;
(f) Developing a strategy and process for the dissemination of the Guidelines and seeking funding and technical cooperation in that regard.Bring cases of HIV-related discrimination and other violations of human rights in the context of HIV to regional human rights judicial and quasi-judicial mechanisms.Introduction: HIV, human rights and public health
Several years of experience in addressing the HIV epidemic have confirmed that the promotion and protection of human rights constitute an essential component in preventing transmission of HIV and reducing the impact of HIV and AIDS. The protection and promotion of human rights are necessary both to the protection of the inherent dignity of persons affected by HIV and to the achievement of the public health goals of reducing vulnerability to HIV infection, lessening the adverse impact of HIV and AIDS on those affected and empowering individuals and communities to respond to HIV.
In general, human rights and public health share the common objective to promote and to protect the rights and well-being of all individuals. From the human rights perspective, this can best be accomplished by promoting and protecting the rights and dignity of everyone, with special emphasis on those who are discriminated against or whose rights are otherwise interfered with. Similarly, public health objectives can best be accomplished by promoting health for all, with special emphasis on those who are vulnerable to threats to their physical, mental or social well-being. Thus, health and human rights complement and mutually reinforce each other in any context. They also complement and mutually reinforce each other in the context of HIV.