Negotiating the Relationship of HIV/AIDS to Reproductive Health and Reproductive Rights

This article outlines how the HIV/AIDS pandemic is affecting women's human rights and particularly focuses upon the denial of reproductive rights to HIV positive women. The author argues that there exists a gap in ensuring that non-discrimination principles are applied to HIV positive women in order to protect their reproductive rights. The article also reviews developments in international law concerning women's reproductive rights and considerations of human rights and HIV/AIDS. The final section of the article reviews relevant provisions from the Program of Action of the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development for the protection of women's rights. [Descriptors: Reproductive Rights - HIV/AiDS, International]