Juan is HIV-positive. He is also the head of a nongovernmental organization that works to improve the quality of life and promote the empowerment of others like him living with HIV/AIDS, their family members, and other loved ones. Specifically, his group strives to protect and defend the human rights of all persons whose lives have been touched by HIV/AIDS, and it provides legal expertise and guidance to those who feel their civil, political, economic, social or cultural rights and fundamental freedoms have been denied or violated.

This document specifies and elaborates on eight distinct but inter-related aspects of sexual health that play important roles in fostering human development.