Archive: 2016

Allan Maleche and Nerima Were Background The tension between public health and individual rights raises key questions in the face of public health crises such as tuberculosis (TB) and Ebola: What are the circumstances that warrant the obligatory…

Kerry McBroom Abstract One thousand people die every day in India as a result of TB, a preventable and treatable disease, even though the Constitution of India, government schemes, and international law guarantee available, accessible, acceptable,…

Camila Gianella, César Ugarte-Gil, Godofredo Caro, Rula Aylas, César Castro, and Claudia Lema Abstract This article analyzes the factors associated with vulnerability of the Ashaninka, the most populous indigenous Peruvian Amazonian people, to…

Gitau Mburu, Enrique Restoy, Evaline Kibuchi, Paula Holland, and Anthony D. Harries  Abstract  Adherence to treatment is a key element for global TB control. Public health laws can be used to enforce isolation, adherence, and completion…

Leslie London, Helen Cox, and Fons Coomans Abstract  The right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress (REBSP) is a little-known but potentially valuable right that can contribute to rights-based approaches to addressing…

Mike Frick, Ian Henry, and Erica Lessem Abstract The incorporation of human rights-based approaches into TB programs is gaining traction, but little work has explored the application of human rights norms and principles to TB research (a domain…

Brian Citro, Evan Lyon, Mihir Mankad, Kiran Raj Pandey, and Camila Gianella This special section of Health and Human Rights Journal focuses much-needed attention on tuberculosis (TB) and human rights—particularly the right to health. Even as TB has…

Thomas Nicholson, Catherine Admay, Aaron Shakow, and Salmaan Keshavjee  Abstract The human rights arguments that underpinned the fight against HIV over the last three decades were poised, but ultimately failed, to provide a similar foundation…

Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Valerie J. Bradley, and Barbara J. Sahakian  Health and Human Rights 18/1 Published June 2016 Abstract The incidence of human rights violations in mental health care across nations has been described as a…

Khadija Sharife When it comes to health, data matter: it can tell us when, where, and how global health is affected, for better or worse. But not only is some important data hard to access, it is rarely analyzed in a way that can truly provide us with…