La participación social en un contexto de violencia política: Implicaciones para la promoción y ejercicio del derecho a la salud en Guatemala

Walter Flores, Ana Lorena Ruano, y Denise Phé Funchal [Editor's note: A PDF version of this article is available here.]   Resumen La participación social se ha entendido de muchas formas y existen tipologías en la literatura que la clasifican por los niveles de control por parte de la población en la toma de decisiones. Así, la [...]

Limitations on human rights in the context of drug-resistant tuberculosis: A reply to Boggio et al.

Joseph J. Amon, Françoise Girard, and Salmaan Keshavjee [Editor's note: A PDF version of this article is available here.]   Abstract Recent attention to multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR- and XDR-TB) has increased discussion and debate over the extent to which limitations to human rights can be justified in the name of [...]

¿Deliberación democrática o mercadeo social? Los dilemas de la definición pública en salud en el contexto del seguimiento de la Sentencia T–760 de 2008

In July 2008, the Colombian Constitutional Court (the Court) issued a decision in which it called upon the Colombian government to adopt a series of measures to progressively realize the right to health. The decision called for a significant restructuring of the country’s health system, in part as a response to the tens of thousands of cases that had flooded the courts in recent years with complaints regarding the system.

Holding multilateral organizations accountable: The failure of WHO in regards to childhood malnutrition

This article first reviews the methods of monitoring growth and development among children under five years of age by the WHO. It then addresses the fact that the WHO delayed disseminating new Child Growth Standards. This delay has cost the lives of malnourished children around the world[...]

Rights to bottle-feeding in poor countries: What is really at stake? A response to Dr. Agnès Binagwaho

The article by Dr. Agnès Binagwaho in Health and Human Rights, Volume 10, Number 1, cannot go without a rebuttal, as the argument appears to rest on several fallacies. Recounting the skepticism that existed ten years ago about anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment in resource-poor settings and the success of activists in forcing the scale-up of access to treatment[...]

A human rights approach to quality of life and health: Applications to public health programming [Spanish]

We post here the original Spanish text of Dr. Armando De Negri Filho’s contribution to this issue of Health and Human Rights, titled, “El enfoque de los derechos humanos en calidad de vida y salud y su aplicación en la reestructuración programática y la reorganización de los servicios: reflexiones alrededor de una estrategia de aplicación:” El [...]