The Legal Environment Assessment (LEA) repots assess the country’s laws, policies, and practices to determine to what extent they either protect, or act as barriers to universal health coverage for all, including key populations. A wide range of health and related laws, policies and practices affecting vulnerable and key populations in the context of HIV, TB and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are examined. Specifically it looks at all laws, policies and practices that affect key populations – criminal laws that criminalise sex work, same-sex sex and drug use, marriage, property and domestic violence laws that impact on women and young girls’ autonomy and ability to make decisions about their lives, harmful gender norms that place adolescent girls and young women at risk of HIV exposure and employment laws that discriminate against people living with HIV, TB and key populations, amongst others. It also identifies stigma, discrimination and human rights violations affecting people living with HIV and other vulnerable and key populations, including the actions of law enforcement officials, analysing how these impact on affected populations’ access to health care services and whether key populations can access justice for rights violations. Recommendations from the LEAs offer guidance to countries on how they can promote inclusion in policy and legal reform processes and programme development.
On this page, you will find a complete collection of the assessments which have been published to date. While UNDP recommends a specific methodology for conducting Legal Environment Assessments for HIV, some countries have conducted other legal reviews (for instance, simple desk reviews) that are also included here under the heading ‘National Dialogue Reports’.
Published: Global Commission on HIV and the Law, 2010 to 2021
eLibrary Legal Environment Assessments – Global Commission on HIV and the Law (hivlawcommission.org)
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