AIDS strategy must pay more attention to human rights

The major impact of AIDS is still to come and the fight against the disease will only succeed if more attention is paid to human rights, said Jonathan Mann, professor of health and human rights, epidemiology, and international health at Harvard, last week in London.

In 1994 there were four million new cases of AIDS, more than in the whole of the 1980s, and the campaign against AIDS is stagnating and fragmenting, said Professor Mann. As the first director …