Defining rights-based indicators for HIV epidemic transition

Affiliations

¹ Office of Global Health and Department of Community Health and Prevention, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
² UNAIDS, Bangui, Central African Republic.
³ Global Network of People Living with HIV, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
⁴ Jamaica Community of Positive Women/ICW Caribbean, St. Catherine, Jamaica.
⁵ Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.

Review

Joseph J Amon et al. PLoS Med. 2018.

. 2018 Dec 21;15(12):e1002720.

doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002720. eCollection 2018 Dec.

¹ Office of Global Health and Department of Community Health and Prevention, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
² UNAIDS, Bangui, Central African Republic.
³ Global Network of People Living with HIV, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
⁴ Jamaica Community of Positive Women/ICW Caribbean, St. Catherine, Jamaica.
⁵ Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.

Abstract

In a Policy Forum, Joseph Amon and colleagues discuss human rights indicators for tracking progress toward ending the HIV epidemic.

CB is a member of the Editorial Board of PLOS Medicine. All other authors state that they have no conflict of interest.

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