HIV/AIDS Language Compendium

of inter­na­tion­ally agreed terms, con­cepts, def­i­n­i­tions and evi­dence for rights-based responses

Introduction

• Fore­word from the Love Alliance
• Intro­duc­tion
• About the HIV Pol­icy Lab

Why language matters

• Why lan­guage mat­ters
• When is lan­guage key?
• What sub­stan­ti­ates key lan­guage?
• Where is sub­stan­ti­a­tion found?
• What is oppo­si­tion lan­guage?
• Who is this com­pendium for?

Terms

• Access to health prod­ucts
• Bod­ily auton­omy and integrity
• Com­bi­na­tion pre­ven­tion
• Com­pre­hen­sive sex­u­al­ity edu­ca­tion
• Gen­der equal­ity
• Gen­der iden­tity and expres­sion
• Gen­der norms and stereo­types
• Harm reduc­tion
• Human rights
• Inter­sec­tion­al­ity
• Key and vul­ner­a­ble pop­u­la­tions
• Key pop­u­la­tion and com­mu­nity lead­er­ship
• Neg­a­tive legal deter­mi­nants
• Pos­i­tive legal deter­mi­nants
• Repro­duc­tive rights
• Sex char­ac­ter­is­tics
• Sex­ual ori­en­ta­tion
• Sex­ual rights
• Soci­etal enablers
• Stigma and dis­crim­i­na­tion
• Uni­ver­sal health cov­er­age