The HIV Anti-Discrimination Center is a project promoted by GAT and Ser+. It launched in 2010 due to the need to guarantee, promote and implement the fundamental rights of people with HIV, viral hepatitis, and other vulnerabilities.
ITS MAIN OBJECTIVES ARE:
1) Support people who are discriminated against for living with HIV/viral hepatitis.
2) Identify situations of discrimination and promote solutions and instruments, legal and social, to defend and promote the rights of people living with HIV, viral hepatitis, and more vulnerable populations.
3) Empower people infected and affected by HIV/viral hepatitis and community agents in several key sectors to reduce stigma and avoid situations of discrimination.
4) Gather prominent national and international publications on discrimination, Human Rights, HIV, and viral hepatitis.
5) Contribute to the production of knowledge on discrimination, Human Rights, HIV, and viral hepatitis.
6) Establish synergies with national and international entities in the area of Human Rights and the fight against discrimination.
IT HAS THE FOLLOWING FEATURES:
Individual support and activism
It aims to provide advice, mediation, and legal support to people who are discriminated against for living with HIV/viral hepatitis and to promote solutions in defense and promotion of their rights.
Training
Aimed at professionals from different key sectors, activists, and people living with HIV/viral hepatitis promotes their empowerment and the exercise of more active citizenship, ethical approach to illness and the person with the disease, defense of human rights, and non-discrimination of people living with these infections, and others in vulnerable situations.
Center for Documentation, Information, and Research (CDII)
Its objective is to spread information and promote knowledge about HIV/viral hepatitis, human rights, and discrimination through the collection, treatment, and availability of information in an open access document repository and by developing or collaborating in social research projects in these areas.
Leaflet - Discriminação VIH e hepatites (Portuguese version)
Leaflet - Taxas moderadoras VIH e Hepatites (Portuguese version)
