used to promote and ensure access to HIV prevention

States should ensure that, in interpreting and implementing international agreements, domestic legislation incorporates to the fullest extent any safeguards and flexibilities therein that may be used to promote and ensure access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support for all, including access to medicines, diagnostics and related technologies। States should make use of these safeguards to the extent necessary to satisfy their domestic and international obligations in relation to human rights. States should review their international agreements (including on trade and investment) to ensure that these are consistent with treaties, legislation and policies designed to promote and protect all human rights and, where those agreements impede access to prevention, treatment, care and support, should amend them as necessary.
State support for legal aid systems specializing in HIV casework, possibly involving community legal aid centres and/or legal service services based in ASOs;
State support or inducements (e.g. tax reduction) to private sector law firms to provide free pro bono services to people living with HIV in areas such as anti-discrimination and disability, health-care rights (informed consent and confidentiality), property (wills, inheritance) and employment law;
State support for programmes to educate, raise awareness and build self-esteem among people living with HIV concerning their rights and/or to empower them to draft and disseminate their own charters/declarations of legal and human rights; State support for production and dissemination of HIV legal rights brochures, resource personnel directories, handbooks,28 practice manuals, student texts, model curricula for law courses and continuing legal education and newsletters to encourage information exchange and networking should also be provided. Such publications could report on case law, legislative reforms, national enforcement and monitoring systems for human rights abuses;
State support for HIV legal services and protection through a variety of offices, such as Ministries of Justice, procurator and other legal offices, health complaint units, ombudspersons and human rights commissions.