The seventeenth International AIDS Conference concludes today in Mexico. On Thursday, Oxfam President Mary Robinson said ending criminalization of HIV is key to stemming the pandemic.

Mary Robinson: “We need to avoid criminalizing those who are HIV. I was glad that this was raised. The model AIDS laws are criminalizing HIV people themselves, mothers who may infect their children. This is the wrong approach. This is not the human rights approach. And we need to take stock and move in a different direction.”