Access to Treatment For People With HIV: Do Latin American Governments Cover Medical Treatment For People With HIV-AIDS Who Cannot Afford It?

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Veronica M. BelmonteFollow

Document Type

Poster

Language

English

Date

Summer 2020

Keywords

HIV-AIDS, medical treatment, right to health care, Latin America, judicial rulings

Description/Abstract

I will analyze different Latin American Supreme Court rulings in order to demonstrate that governments are obliged to cover universal medical treatments for people with HIV. This is a worldwide issue and UNAIDS is constantly working to protect this vulnerable group of people. We can see this progress in the following statistics.

Disciplines

Health Law and Policy | Latin American Studies | Virus Diseases

Funder(s)

Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the U.S. Department of State

Funding ID

S-ECAGD-20-CA-0009

Recommended Citation

Belmonte, Veronica M., "Access to Treatment For People With HIV: Do Latin American Governments Cover Medical Treatment For People With HIV-AIDS Who Cannot Afford It?" (2020). International Programs. 56.
https://surface.syr.edu/eli/56

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Additional Information

This work has been created with support from the Institute of International Education (IIE)/Fulbright - English for Graduate Students Program.

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