Open AccessAsylum Seekers and HIV/AIDS: Legal Issues, WellBeing and Fundamental Rights
Author(s) -
Neža Kogovšek Šalamon
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
medicine, law and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2630-2535
pISSN - 2463-7955
DOI - 10.18690/24637955.9.2.85-99(2016
Subject(s) - refugee , comprehensive plan of action , human rights , population , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , seekers , political science , medicine , environmental health , family medicine , law
Migrants, including asylum seekers, are a key population to focus on, according to the European Action Plan for HIV/AIDS 2012–2015. In general, data on the prevalence of HIV/AIDS among asylum seekers are scarce, but some receiving states have already noted a high HIV prevalence among asylum seekers who give birth. While there are many challenges in ensuring asylum seekers living with HIV/AIDS have access to adequate health services, it seems that protection of rejected asylum seekers (and other irregularly staying migrants) living with HIV/AIDS will be at the forefront of their struggle for adequate protection of their human rights.