Global: AIDS Pandemic Is Human Rights Crisis, Amnesty says

Amnesty International's Secretary General, Irene Khan, has called the AIDS pandemic a human rights crisis. Speaking during the closing plenary of the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, she said that the 'failure to protect the rights and dignity of people is fuelling the pandemic and making it worse.' She attacked those governments who were 'still looking for a quick fix to HIV', and who were 'still failing to recognise that human rights violations increase people's vulnerability to infection, and that people living with HIV/AIDS often face grave human rights abuses.'