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I read on TB patients in prison in kenya and it a violation of human rights.
I read below on person with HIV in prison in china and its a violation of human rights.
What do China and Kenya have in common - Violating human rights, detaining people with disease, giving no respect, using criminal system to 'fix' the error and problems the governments had make.
Maybe it time to put the jailers in jail.
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Dear all, I have attached the information related with Tianxi the young AIDS activist in China who now are in detention. Our group (Beijing AIZHIXING Institute and other Chinese AIDS groups are calling for his release as soon as possible. In the attachment you will find our calling letter, media report from AP, AFP, and South China Morning Post . I will update this case. See you soon, My best , Rayila Beijing AIZHIXING Institute -- If it happens to anyone ,it happens to everyone! Love,Knowledge ,Action
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Police detain Aids activist, claiming he damaged hospital
An Aids sufferer turned activist who contracted the disease as a child has been detained by police in Henan province, ostensibly for damaging hospital property, his parents said yesterday.

Update 30.08.10: This outrage has been confirmed, and is in fact much worse than we had all thought. It all began with the posting below...
- It appears that people with TB are being imprisoned by the Gov't instead of fixing the failing Kenyan TB program. Blaming patients for Program failures is no longer acceptable, and imprisoning them is an outrageous violation of their human rights. The World Care Council has written to Dr. Sitieneii seeking urgent clarification.
NAIROBI, Kenya — A court has sentenced two tuberculosis patients who skipped their medications to spend eight months in prison to avoid spreading the deadly disease among the public, a senior health official said Saturday. The male patients were locked up in Kapsabet prison in western Kenya nearly 10 days ago to make sure they take their pills as prescribed and do not infect others, said Joseph Sitienei, the head of tuberculosis and lung diseases at the public health and sanitation ministry.
A person whose immune system is compromised by HIV is particularly susceptible to tuberculosis, which is caused by bacteria that usually attack the lungs. The disease is spread through the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes. Sitienei said the judge who sentenced the pair invoked a rarely utilized law that allows the government to jail patients with infectious diseases to safeguard the public health.

High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay tells the 63rd Annual United Nations Department of Public Information / Non-governmental Organizations Conference (DPI/NGO Conference) that the right to health is at the very core of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The premier DPI/NGO annual event – the 63rd Annual United Nations Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organizations Conference – will be held in Melbourne, Australia, from 30 August to 1 September 2010. Titled "Advance Global Health: Achieve the MDGs", it is the first time that Australia will host a United Nations event of this size. It is also only the third time that the UNDPI/NGO Conference has been held outside of United Nations Headquarters.

From the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) a new report has been published. Human Rights and the Millennium Development Goals in Practice : A review of country strategies and reporting. At the moment a massive advocacy push is needed, this document is very useful for understanding where we are, and where we must go in each country. Know Your Rights - Know the MDGs. The link to the report is found at the very bottom. Below is an interesting table that makes it clear.

The Alarm bell is ringing. Hard times hit hardest the well-being of poor communities. As public health funding is under severe pressure in national budgets around the world, and international donors are cutting back or cutting out, we think its time to take extraordinary steps to increase the involvement in local health issues of many more people in communities affected by this roll back. Even before the downturn in resources, the road was a steep uphill climb towards realizing the Right to Health for all.

The World Health Organisation is urging countries to take action against the spread of drug-resistant bacteria, which threaten to deprive us of antibiotics which once seemed miracle cures for infectious diseases.
The WHO is speaking out following a Lancet paper written by Professor Tim Walsh in the UK and colleagues in India, which warned of the spread of bacteria carrying a new gene, which they called NDM 1. These bacteria become resistant to almost all the antibiotics designed to fight them. The main piece I wrote about it, called "Are you ready for a world without antibiotics?" can be found here.

Chinese AIDS activist detained: I'm writing to alert you to the detention of a friend and colleague, Tian Xi, on August 17th. Tian Xi is a 23-year-old from Henan who became an AIDS activist after, like thousands of others, he was infected with HIV through a hospital blood transfusion. He has repeatedly petitioned the local and national government to demand compensation. He also previously worked for leading AIDS NGO Aizhixing -- as you know, Aizhixing's director, Wan Yanhai, recently fled to the US alleging government harassment (Aizhixing's statement on Tian Xi follows). About a week ago, Tian Xi contacted us to tell us that county officials had become fed up with his repeated protests, and that they had sent documents to the local police describing him as a former Aizhixing employee with anti-government views, urging his detention.

‘In most cases, the top brass knew what was going on'
With the cold-blooded murder of Right to Information (RTI) activist Amit Jethwa near the Gujarat High Court in Ahmedabad last Tuesday, the number of whistleblowers killed this year alone has gone up to eight. The Congress-ruled Maharashtra tops the list with four killings, followed by the BJP-ruled Gujarat with two.
The murdered RTI activists were: Datta Patil of Kolhapur (Maharashtra), killed on May 31; Vitthal Gite of Beed district, Maharashtra, on April 21; Sola Ranga Rao of Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, on April 11; Arun Sawant of Badlapur, Maharashtra, on February 26; Shashidhar Mishra of Begusarai, Bihar, on February 14; Vishram Laxman Dodiya of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, on February 11; and Satish Shetty of Pune, Maharashtra, killed on January 13.
Eyewash: RTI activist Krishnaraja Rao said that after every murder the respective State Government gave a standard reply: “Matter is under investigation. We will find the culprits.” He alleged that this is nothing but eyewash. In most cases, the top brass knew exactly what was going on.

NEW YORK — Demaris Muthoni weighed the same at 4 years old as when she was born. When Jane Kinuthia found her, huddled beside a shack in the red light district of Gilgil, Kenya, Muthoni weighed 10 pounds. “In all my years in Gilgil, I had never seen anything like this,” said Jane Kinuthia, who owned a cafe in the area of the Rift Valley, northwest of Nairobi, before she became a child's rights activist.
Muthoni's parents died of AIDS, leaving her to pass the time along the dingy streets of her neighborhood while her 17-year-old aunt and caregiver worked as a prostitute, to bring in about a dollar a client.
That was three years ago. Today, Muthoni is a robust schoolgirl who lives in an orphanage on the other side of town. She has thrived, thanks to a nutrition and education program founded by Kinuthia along with two other women, one a nurse and the other a social worker.

According to Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, the vast majority of countries in the Middle East and North Africa region score very poorly to various degrees. The often oppressive and hostile policies towards activists and organizations that are involved with civil society and governance (including those that promote transparency and accountability) and the mediocre integration of technology in governance, administration, and everyday life in general have resulted in a negligible use of available technologies and the tools and platforms they provide to promote accountability and institutional integrity.