The research director at the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States.
A program specialist in the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States.
Health Hum Rights. 2022 Dec;24(2):1-11.
Experience has shown the need to explicitly address human rights and gender-related barriers in the rollout of HIV-related biomedical innovations, including "undetectable equals untransmittable" (U=U). This paper brings to light rights and gender considerations relevant to supporting U=U, recognizing a range of barriers that remain to be addressed for all people to benefit equally from U=U. We conducted a literature review to ascertain how human rights and gender were addressed in relevant publications, including peer-reviewed articles published between 2006 and 2020, relevant nongovernmental and global organizations' publications, and abstracts presented at the 2019 International AIDS Conference, that explicitly addressed U=U or "treatment as prevention." Despite evidence to illustrate the importance of attention to human rights and gender within U=U policies and interventions, there remains a lack of explicit attention to human rights and gender considerations in research and programming, particularly with regard to the rights principles of participation and accountability. Explicitly engaging all of these dimensions is key to informing interventions and improving people's lives, health, and well-being.
经验表明,在推广与艾滋病相关的生物医学创新方面,包括“检测不到等于不传播”(U=U),需要明确解决与人权和性别相关的障碍。本文揭示了支持 U=U 相关的权利和性别问题,认识到为了使所有人平等受益于 U=U,仍有一系列障碍需要解决。我们进行了文献综述,以确定相关出版物中如何涉及人权和性别问题,包括 2006 年至 2020 年期间发表的同行评议文章、相关非政府组织和全球组织的出版物,以及在 2019 年国际艾滋病会议上提交的明确涉及 U=U 或“治疗即预防”的摘要。尽管有证据表明,在 U=U 政策和干预措施中需要关注人权和性别问题,但在研究和规划中,特别是在参与和问责的权利原则方面,仍然缺乏对人权和性别问题的明确关注。明确处理所有这些方面是为干预措施提供信息并改善人们的生活、健康和福祉的关键。