Campaigns

Sex Work and HIV/AIDS
Sex workers' risk and vulnerability to HIV is determined among other factors, by the existing legal structure that criminalizes their lives and livelihoods. The Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit has been advocating for measures that secure sex workers' right to live with dignity and right to health, safety and livelihood, to be free of violence and free HIV infection. More...


AMTC
The Affordable Medicines and Treatment Campaign was convened in 2001 by the Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit, as the inequity in access to lifesaving AIDS treatment was becoming an issue of growing global outrage. Prior to 2001, the costs of triple-combination antiretroviral therapy were prohibitive - upwards of USD 10,000 per person per year - thus creating an unjust gap between those for whom HIV/AIDS had become a lifelong, but treatable chronic condition and those in the developing world, for whom AIDS remained a certain death sentence. More...


Anti Sodomy Law
An essential component of a public health response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic is to ensure that men who have sex with men (MSM), who are vulnerable to contracting HIV, are able to access health information and services relating to HIV. The law, however, poses a barrier to such access as it criminalises sex between consenting adults of the same sex vide Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) . NAZ foundation an NGO working for MSM rights has filed a petition in the Delhi High Court challenging the constitutionality of Section-377. More...