Resources: Parliamentarians for Global Action LGBTI Inclusion SiteLGBTI Handbook for Parliamentarians now available
Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) LGBTI Inclusion Site (available in English and Spanish) provides user-friendly tools designed to help parliamentarians, and other relevant stakeholders, better understand their role in ensuring equality and non-discrimination of all individuals, regardless of who they are or whom they love. The Site describes relevant human rights frameworks and highlights the role of parliamentarians, civil society and other stakeholders in implementing Agenda 2030 (the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by world leaders in 2015), to ensure no one, including Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) persons, is left behind. It offers practical tips, tools and resources designed to support parliamentarians to undertake legislative, representational and oversight activities that advance the rights and inclusion of LGBTI people.
The LGBTI Handbook for Parliamentarians produced with UNDP is available for download in PDF form (in English and Spanish) on the Site.
Access the website here.
On a separate note, here you can find more information about PGA’s Parliamentary Delegation to Belize on Human Rights, Equality and Non-Discrimination.
WHAT IS PANCAP?
PANCAP is a Caribbean regional partnership of governments, regional civil society organisations, regional institutions and organisations, bilateral and multilateral agencies and contributing donor partners established on 14 February 2001. PANCAP provides a structured and unified approach to the Caribbean’s response to the HIV epidemic, and coordinates the response through the Caribbean Regional Strategic Framework on HIV and AIDS to maximise efficient use of resources and increase impact, mobilise resources and build the capacity of partners.
What are the Global AIDS Strategy 2021–2026 targets and commitments?
If targets and commitments in the strategy are achieved:
- The number of people who newly acquire HIV will decrease from 1.7 million in 2019 to less than 370 000 by 2025
- The number of people dying from AIDS-related illnesses will decrease from 690 000 in 2019 to less than 250 000 in 2025.
- The goal of eliminating new HIV infections among children will see the number of new HIV infections drop from 150,000 in 2019 to less than 22,000 in 2025.
What are the 95-95-95 Targets for ending AIDS?
- 95% of People Living with HIV know their HIV status;
- 95% of people who know their status on treatment; and
- 95% of people on treatment with suppressed viral loads.
HELPFUL LINKS:
Global AIDS Strategy 2021–2026, End Inequalities, End AIDS
https://pancap.org/pancap-documents/global-aids-strategy-2021-2026-end-inequalities-end-aids/
Caribbean Regional Strategic Framework on HIV and AIDS (CRSF) 2019-2025
https://pancap.org/pancap-documents/caribbean-regional-strategic-framework-2019-2025/