Archive: 2019

PDF Gillian MacNaughton and Mariah McGill Abstract Interdisciplinary collaboration between the health and human rights communities is essential to operationalize the right to health. In practice, however, such collaboration has been infrequent.…

PDF Rachel Hammonds, Gorik Ooms, Moses Mulumba, and Allan Maleche Abstract The September 2019 United Nations High Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) aims to mobilize top-level political support for action on UHC to advance…

PDF Flavia Bustreo and Curtis Doebbler Our children are our future and one of the basic responsibilities is to care for them in the best and most compassionate manner possible.—Nelson Mandela[1] If women are denied a chance to develop their full…

PDF Thérèse Murphy Abstract This article argues that to be able to look forward, lawyers within the health and human rights movement need to do more looking back. It is prompted by a simple question: do we have a history of health and human…

Winnie Byanyima Winnie Byanyima answered these questions drafted by the UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights and posed by the Health and Human Rights Journal when she was a candidate for the position of Executive Director of UNAIDS HHRJ:…

PDF Alessandro Luciano and Alex Voorhoeve Abstract The experience of Costa Rica highlights the potential for conflicts between the right to health and fair priority setting. For example, one study found that most favorable rulings by the Costa…

PDF Madison B. Sharp*, Andrew R. Milewski*, Claire Lamneck, and Katherine McKenzie Abstract Individuals applying for asylum must demonstrate a well-founded fear of persecution. By documenting signs of torture and other forms of abuse, medical…

Dainius Pūras – UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health Many of the problems in global health stem from power imbalances in the health workforce, and these can be traced back to medical education systems. There is an urgent need to overhaul…

PDF Liv Tønnessen and Samia Al-Nagar Abstract In Sudan’s Islamist state, abortion is politicized through its association with illegal pregnancy. Fornication is a crime against God punishable with 100 lashes, and pregnancy outside a marriage…

Dainius Pūras We cannot effectively prevent suicide by increasing the use of prescription medicines. Instead, we need to acknowledge that emotional pain frequently comes from social problems, including being a victim of violence, discrimination, or…