"December 2013"--Table of contents page. "This report was written by Megan McLemore, senior researcher in the Health and Human Rights Division"--Page 66. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Summary -- Recommendations. To the City of New Orleans Health Department ; To the New Orleans Police Department ; To the Orleans Parish Prison ; To the New Orleans City Council ; To the Louisiana State Legislature ; To the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals ; To the Governor of Louisiana ; To the United States Government ; To the United Nations -- Methodology -- Background. Sex exchange and HIV ; HIV in New Orleans ; Louisiana law and policy analysis ; Syringe access ; Anti-prostitution enforcement ; Lack of access to health care ; Housing policy -- Findings. Barriers to HIV prevention for people who exchange sex ; Police harassment for possession of condoms ; Police profiling, abuse and misconduct ; Lack of access to health care ; Barriers to sustaining HIV treatment ; Lack of access to housing as a barrier to sustaining HIV treatment ; Incarceration as a barrier to sustaining HIV treatment ; Transgender women, jail and HIV ; HIV and the Hispanic community in New Orleans -- International human rights standards. Right to an adequate standard of living ; Right to be free from racial discrimination ; Right to syringes, condoms and other means of HIV prevention ; Right to be free from gender discrimination ; Right to be free from cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment -- Acknowledgements.
Summary:
"This 57-page report documents government violations of the right to health and other abuses of at-risk populations in New Orleans. It calls for changes in state and local laws and policies that stigmatize, discriminate against, and facilitate police abuse of sex workers and drug users, and interfere with health services for people at high risk for HIV. The report was released in advance of the third annual Southern Harm Reduction and Drug Policy Conference, which opens in New Orleans on December 12, 2013"--Publisher's website.
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