he last thematic issues of Health and Human Rights on HIV/AIDS were published in 1998. The world was a very different place. Then, as now, individuals were suffering massively from discrimination and inadequate access to needed services; but at a policy and programmatic level, it appeared that things were beginning to stabilize as certain strategies were globally recognized as appropriate and useful to bring the impacts of the epidemic under control. There was not only abundant evidence of the negative effects of violations of rights both in HIV prevention and in ensuring the ability of People Living with HIV to live lives with dignity after diagnosis, but there were significant examples of policy and programmatic efforts that through use of key human rights principles such as non-discrimination and participation seemed poised to help bring the epidemic under control. Condoms as a cornerstone of prevention in-
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Gruskin et al. (2005) studied this question.