UNDP – Legal Barriers to Access for Key Populations Clifton Cortez

Rights in ActionDecember 4, 2015Washington, DC

Why Legal Issues Are Important

Changes in the legal and policy environment, along with other interventions, could lower new adult HIV infections to an estimated 1.2 million by 2031, compared to 2.1 million if current efforts continue without these structural changes to the legal environments.

-The Global Commission on HIV and the Law (2012)

Addressing Law as a Structural Barrier

More Information: www.hivlawcommission.org

Legal Environment AssesmentsUNDP Legal Environment Assessment for HIV: Operational Manual http://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/library/HIV-AIDS/Governance%20of%20HIV%20Responses/UNDP%20Practical%20Manual%20LEA%20FINAL%20web.pdf

Hosted on UNDP website http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/librarypage/hiv-aids/legal-environment-assessments.html

And Global Commission on HIV and the Law web site

http://www.hivlawcommission.org/index.php/implementation-of-report/legal-environment-assessments

UNDP/LINKAGES Gender-Based Violence Study

• Goal: Understand experiences of violence among female sex workers, gay men and other MSM, and trans women in El Salvador, Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, and Haiti

• Key population-led process • Definition of research questions and methods• Data collection • Interpretation and prioritization of findings • Direction for findings, packaging and dissemination