penalty shall be from five (5) to ten (10) years' imprisonment and a fine ranging
between one million (1,000,000) and three million (3,000,000) CFA francs.
3.4.4 – HIV/AIDS (Article 14 (1) (d))
591. Several measures are being taken to provide people with the best means to
protect themselves and to fight against HIV/AIDS.
592. On the legal front, government adopted in 2010, Law No. 2010-018 of 31
December 2010 amendening the Law of 2005 to protect people from HIV /AIDS.
This law devotes a section to the protection of women. It provides prorgrammes
for the prevention and care of HIV/AIDS for women (Article 45). Article 46 of the
same law also gives the woman the right to refuse unprotected sex, even if the
couple is legally married.
593. In practical terms, the State has taken measures and carried out actions at the
political, strategic and programming levels.
At the political level
a National Health Policy (PNS) was validated in 2011;
National policy to fight HIV and AIDS: Vision 2020 was formulated in
2012.
At the level of strategies and programmes
National Health Development Plan (PNDS), validated in 2012, which
covers the period 2012-2015 and is broken down into five programmes,
the first and third of which are devoted to the reduction of maternal and
neonatal mortality and the fight against malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis
and other communicable diseases.
2012-2015 National Strategic Plan for the fight against HIV and AIDS,
validated in 2012: its vision is to have a Togo without new HIV
infections and to mitigate the impact of AIDS on the population and
especially on the highly vulnerable groups including women.
Programme to fight HIV among women in Togo: developed in 2010 and
covering the period from 2011 to 2015, it enables the ministries in the
sector to be involved in programmes to care for groups that are
vulnerable to STIs and HIV/AIDS.
165
Select target paragraph3
Connect to a paragraph
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Add to table of contents