Right to health with focus on people with HIV and AIDS in Tanzania
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Date
2018
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The Eastern African Law Review
Abstract
This article seeks to explore the right to health with special focus on people with Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in
Tanzania. It adopts an historical analysis by firstly focusing on the general position of the
right to health at the international level. The article later centres its discussion on the
international instruments on the right to health to people with HIV and AIDS. Having
highlighted international position of the right to health, the study concentrates its
discussion by providing, albeit in summary, the evolution and development of Tanzanian
health system. It informs the legal position of the health system and submits on how the
right to health is reflected in the Tanzania constitution. It later sets a specific focus on the
accessibility of the right to health to people with HIV and AIDS in the country.
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Act No 28 of 2008. The Act enshrined provisions against discrimination and it made it
punishable by law for anyone to discriminate people with HIV and AIDS, pp. 17-32
Keywords
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), HIV/AIDS Policy, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS, Health right, Health system, Tanzania