Earlier this week Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, hosted a seminar to debate the adoption of a draft bill of law on the rights and obligations of HIV-positive people. The seminar, attended by doctors, lawyers, magistrates, social workers and Members of the Transitional Council (CAR’s law advisory body) was organised by UNAIDS, in conjunction with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the national anti-HIV/AIDS body, the Comite National de Lutte contre le Sida.