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The HIV Programme provides technical and monetary support to public and private lawyers, civil society organisations, and community-based organisations to use the law to achieve concrete policy and legal outcomes which advance and solidify the rights of those infected and affected by HIV in southern Africa. The Programme does this by intervening in or providing technical and monetary support to strategic litigation, capacity building of key groups, and facilitating networks.

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SALC and other human rights organisations called for an end to the use of firearms against protestors in Malawi and recommended that the Malawian government immediately launch an independent, impartial and thorough investigation into the activities of its security forces. 

SALC Makes Submission to Global Commission on HIV and the Law

SALC highlighted the legal and policy impediments to effectively addressing HIV in a submission to the Global Commission on HIV and the Law. In the submission SALC argued that the continued violations of women's sexual and reproductive rights in the region, the discrimination of sexual minorities and the discriminatory laws regarding women's inheritance and property rights hamper efforts to address HIV in southern Africa. The Commission will be holding a dialogue in Africa to further investigate these and other issues on 3-4 August in Johannesburg, South Africa.