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AIDS-Related Legislation in the Context of the Third AIDS Pandemic
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 April 2021
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The first AIDS-related legislation was enacted in 1983. By this time, policy-makers as well as legislators in several countries had set in motion the process of formulating legislative measures to deal with a new and critical problem about which very little was known. This process gathered momentum over the years, partly as a response to the recognition that the problem of discrimination against AIDS patients and persons with HIV infection, which first began with homosexuals and persons of Haitian and African origin, will assume more critical dimensions with devastating social, economic, political and cultural implications and reactions. It is these implications and reactions which have come to be described as the “Third AIDS Pandemic:”
The third epidemic closely follows the first two, of HIV infection and AIDS. It is the epidemic of economic, social, political and cultural reaction. In the words of Javier Perez de Cuellar,… “AIDS raises crucial social, humanitarian, and legal issues threatening to undermine the fabric of tolerance and understanding upon which our societies function.”
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