Anand Grover

Anand Grover is a lawyer known for legal activism in Indian law relating to homosexuality and HIV. He is a member of the Lawyers Collective.

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United Nations work

Grover is a member of the UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights and a Special Rapporteur in the United Nations Human Rights Council. His duty in this position is to promote the right to physical and mental health.[1]

Repeal of Section 377

With the Lawyers Collective Grover led the Naz Foundation's legal case for the repeal of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which was a law criminalizing homosexuality in India.[2]

HIV activism

Grover led the Lawyers Collective court case against Novartis regarding an interpretation of Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights which would determine the patent status of antiretroviral drugs in India. The result of the case was that the Lawyers Collective prevailed and certain drugs became ineligible for patenting, thus keeping the price of the medications in line with generic medication costs.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Strong HIV and Human Rights Activist appointed as new UN Special Rapporteur". UNAIDS press center. UNAIDS. 11 July 2008. http://www.unaids.org/en/Resources/PressCentre/Featurestories/2008/July/20080711SpecialRapporteur/. Retrieved 9 April 2011. 
  2. ^ Kian Ganz (17 August 2009). "The lawyer who fought the 377 law and won: Anand Grover". legallyindia.com. http://www.legallyindia.com/20090817134/Interviews/anand-grover-the-lawyer-who-fought-the-377-law-and-won. Retrieved 9 April 2011. 
  3. ^ TREAT Asia Report (October 2008). "An Interview with Anand Grover—Fighting AIDS in Court". amfAR. http://www.amfar.org/world/treatasia/article.aspx?id=194. Retrieved 9 April 2011. 

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