AIDSLEX uses interactive information and communication technology (ICT) in an effort to give concrete meaning to a "rights-based approach to HIV/AIDS". It is a tool for learning, collaborating, and promoting and defending human rights. AIDSLEX strives to achieve this in various ways:

• AIDSLEX e-Library - a searchable database of over 2,700 documents (and growing) on a range of human rights and legal issues related to HIV/AIDS. Items are available in one or more of the following languages: English, French, Russian, and Spanish. This e-Library is meant to be a participatory process: "Because one of the objectives with this website is to amass a solid body of key material available in the four languages of AIDSLEX, we strongly encourage AIDSLEX users - registered or not - to send us documents for possible inclusion into the database. When sending us a document, please forward all relevant language versions."
• AIDSLEX People Connector - a growing list of people around the world who work on legal and human rights issues related to HIV/AIDS. By visiting the People Connector, one may find others working in a particular field or an on issue of interest. "To contact someone, please send your query to connector@aidslex.org Your message will be forwarded to the individual in question."
• "Ask the Expert" online sessions - users may submit questions to which the guest expert responds during a question-and-answer session at a broadcast time and date. Users can also view past sessions.
• AIDSLEX Discussions - an open forum for registered users of AIDSLEX. Here, they can begin or add to conversations about HIV and human rights issues. Participants can upload documents of interest to the community, pose questions to other users, seek help with their research, or share information to help coordinate human rights campaigning globally.

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According to organisers, human rights violations continue to hinder the response to HIV/AIDS. "Subordination of women constrains their ability to demand safer sex and their equal access to health and education services. Men who have sex with men and sex workers are harassed and abused with impunity in many countries. Prisoners are denied access to HIV/AIDS services and support that are available to others. Indigenous persons and migrants face multiple forms of discrimination that inhibit their seeking of HIV/AIDS services. People living with HIV/AIDS face a wide range of discriminatory practices in many settings."

"In facing these challenges, organizations of people living with HIV/AIDS, advocates and policy-makers have often needed and relied upon legal and human rights analysis and relevant research - to challenge discriminatory laws, to resist unjust or ill-informed policies, to use legal procedures to secure people's rights and to transform social relations and conditions in ways that protect people against HIV and ensure access to dignity and care for those living with HIV. Yet such information and tools are often inaccessible in a given language or format or seldom adapted to a particular set of new circumstances. In some cases, many resources exist on a given subject, but those who need these documents do not have the time or resources to find what they need or to work out which existing materials are most pertinent for their needs." AIDSLEX is designed to address this gap.