WHAT ARE HIV-RELATED LEGAL SERVICES?
Toolkit: Scaling Up HIV-Related Legal Services
Figure 1 WHAT ARE HIV-RELATED LEGAL SERVICES?
Community legal education for people living with and affected by HIV, and keu populations
Legal education of health care workers, employers and media on the rights of people living with and affected by HIV, and key populations
Legal education of lawyers, judges, paralegals, police on the rights of people living with and affected by HIV, and key populations
CORE LEGAL SERVICES Legal advice, information and representation for people living with and affected by HIV, and key populations
Monitoring and documentation of breaches of legal rights and human rights, analysis and research of case trend
Advocacy and campaigning for improved laws, policies and practices, and increased resources; drafting of model laws
Figure 1 presents a model of legal services. The circle in the middle represents the core activities that HIV legal services comprise. These activities ensure that people living with HIV, people affected by HIV and key populations can claim and enforce their legal rights. The outer circles represent additional activities, such as education, law reform, advocacy and research, that will help to create legal and human rights literacy, generate demand for legal services, ensure that legal services reach the most marginalized and provide an enabling environment for HIV prevention, treatment, care and support programmes. It is rare that a single organization will have the capacity to provide all of the services described above. Figure 1 shows that there are a number of important activities that operate alongside each other that together increase the uptake of such services and that create an enabling legal environment for an effective HIV response. 15