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REMOVING HUMAN RIGHTS BARRIERS TO HIV PREVENTION, CARE AND TREATMENT: USING DATA TO DRIVE ACTION GLOBALLY ASSESSING HUMAN RIGHTS IN HIV RESPONSES: CHALLENGES.

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1 REMOVING HUMAN RIGHTS BARRIERS TO HIV PREVENTION, CARE AND TREATMENT: USING DATA TO DRIVE ACTION GLOBALLY ASSESSING HUMAN RIGHTS IN HIV RESPONSES: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Sofia Gruskin, J.D., MIA Director, Program on Global Health & Human Rights Institute for Global Health Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Gould School of Law University of Southern California Tuesday, July 19 th, 2016

2 Globalhealth.usc.edu/ghhr Sofia Gruskin, J.D., MIA APPROACHES TO HUMAN RIGHTS IN HIV RESPONSES A broad concern with justice – “a rhetorical approach” Naming and shaming – “a violations approach” Preventing and addressing human rights violations through engagement with the law– “ a legal approach” Using rights to improve the delivery of HIV-related services – “an operational approach”  Requires clarity given:  Implications for programming, data collection, evaluation, disaggregation, accountability, legal claims… and for how we understand one another!

3 Globalhealth.usc.edu/ghhr Sofia Gruskin, J.D., MIA WHAT HUMAN RIGHTS ARE WE TALKING ABOUT ?  The right to life, survival, and development  The right to equality and non- discrimination  The right to health (availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality of services delivered)  The right to share in scientific advancement and its benefits  The right to bodily integrity and security of the person  The right to an identity  The right to privacy/confidentiality  The right to seek, receive and impart information  The right to freedom of opinion and expression  The right to travel  The right to food  The right to housing  The right to social security  The right to work  The right to be free from torture  The right to association  The right to marry and to found a family  The right to equal access to education  The right to an adequate standard of living  The right to social security, assistance and welfare  The right to freedom of association  The right to freedom of movement  The right to seek and enjoy asylum  … and Accountability

4 Globalhealth.usc.edu/ghhr Sofia Gruskin, J.D., MIA A COMMITMENT TO USING HUMAN RIGHTS TO ADDRESS BARRIERS TO HIV PREVENTION, CARE AND TREATMENT  Addressing inequalities in the delivery, uptake and use of HIV- related services, and the laws and policies under which programs operate  Ensuring that plans, policies and programs are anchored in a system of rights and corresponding obligations in line with international law:  Non-discrimination  Availability, accessibility, acceptability, quality of health services  Information and education  Informed decision making  Privacy and confidentiality  Participation and accountability  Providing opportunities for individuals (especially the most marginalized) to participate in policy and program formulation and implementation  Ensuring mechanisms that support accountability, including routine monitoring, evaluation as well as means of redress for rights violations

5 (PRESENTATION NAME) Sofia Gruskin, J.D., MIA USING HUMAN RIGHTS IN ASSESSING HIV PROGRAMMING HUMAN RIGHTS PRINCIPLES Non-discrimination; availability, accessibility, acceptability, quality of health services; information and education; informed decision making; privacy and confidentiality; participation; accountability Gruskin, S., Waller, E., Safreed-Harmon, K., Ezer, T., Cohen, J., Gathumbi, A. & Kameri-Mbote, P. (2015). Integrating human rights in program evaluation: Lessons from law and health programs in Kenya. In B. Rosenstein & H. Desivilya Syna (Eds.), Evaluation and social justice in complex sociopolitical contexts. New Directions for Evaluation, 146, 57–69

6 Globalhealth.usc.edu/ghhr Sofia Gruskin, J.D., MIA WHY INDICATORS? WHAT INDICATORS TO USE?  Potential benefits of attention to rights in indicator development and use:  Generates focus on the humans that need services  Generates operational attention to rights in how services are delivered  Can measure performance of HIV- related services and outcomes with attention to human rights  Generates the evidence base of how rights matter for delivery, uptake and use of HIV-related services  Can drive programming  What sort of indicators are needed?  Quantitative indicators exist but are largely insufficient  Qualitative indicators exist but are not widely used  Policy indicators exist but are not widely used and only rarely linked to HIV programming

7 Globalhealth.usc.edu/ghhr Sofia Gruskin, J.D., MIA DETERMINING IF AN INDICATOR LEND ITSELF TO ASSESSING RIGHTS CONCERNS  Determine how data are collected and what the indicator is trying to measure  Determine which human rights principles or standards are potentially addressed by the indicator  Determine if the link to human rights is explicit and/or implicit  Determine if the indicator has a focus on specific population and/or inequalities  Determine if the indicator reflects community and/or user perspectives  Determine if the indicator lends itself to disaggregation and investigation for potential accordance with non- discrimination law  Adapted from Gruskin, Ferguson, Kumar, Khosla, “An Instrumental Methodology for Strengthening Human Rights Aspects of Monitoring, Evaluation and Accountability in Public Health” (under review 2016).

8 Globalhealth.usc.edu/ghhr Sofia Gruskin, J.D., MIA  What counts as data  Growing attention to assessing rights-based interventions  Growing attention to assessing all interventions from a rights perspective  And finally … what will it take for for broader M&E systems to take rights seriously and to truly be rights-based? 8 CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

9 Globalhealth.usc.edu/ghhr Sofia Gruskin, J.D., MIA THANK YOU! Globalhealth.usc.edu/ghhr 9


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