Archive: Mon Jun 2024

Vol 26/1, 2024, pp. 137-141  PDF PERSPECTIVE Amirala S. Pasha and Roma Sonik  Introduction Overmedicalization describes the overreliance on medical terminology and frameworks to explain, assess, and address an issue.[1] There is…

Vol 26/1, 2024, pp. 129-135  PDF PERSPECTIVE Lisa Cosgrove, Cristian Montenegro, Lee Edson Yarcia, Gianna D’Ambrozio, and Julie Hannah Introduction The United Nations (UN) officially acknowledged the “global burden” of mental…

Vol 26/1, 2024, pp. 115-127  PDF Niall McGrane, Laura Behan, and Laura M. Keyes Abstract Managing residential care facilities (RCFs) includes the ability to manage adverse events while maintaining a human rights-based approach to care and…

Vol 26/1, 2024, pp. 101-114  PDF Alex Freeman and Leslie Swartz Abstract Protecting the rights of people with psychosocial conditions is an important and controversial global aim, particularly in light of multiple calls for reduced coercion…

Vol 26/1, 2024, pp. 31-43  PDF Christina Zampas, Rebecca Brown, and Onyema Afulukwe Abstract The provision of basic sexual and reproductive health services in humanitarian settings, including armed conflict, is extremely limited, causing…

Vol 26/1, 2024, pp. 27-30  PDF COMMENTARY,  COMMEMORATING 30 YEARS Tlaleng Mofokeng Lynn P. Freedman conceptualized human rights as being rooted in a rejection of the imposition of the will of any one person or group over another. In…

Vol 26/1, 2024, pp. 21-25  PDF COMMENTARY, COMMEMORATING 30 YEARS Sharifah Sekalala and Kene Esom Introduction The 1998 article “Human Rights and AIDS in South Africa: From Right Margin to Left Margin” by Mark Heywood and Morna Cornell…

Vol 26/1, 2024, pp. 15-19  PDF COMMENTARY, COMMEMORATING 30 YEARS Lawrence O. Gostin and Eric A. Friedman The year was 1994. Contracting HIV was a death sentence. Triple therapy was still two years away in the United States. Efforts to…

Vol 26/1, 2024, pp. 11-14  PDF COMMENTARY, COMMEMORATING 30 YEARS Stephen P. Marks This 30th anniversary of Health and Human Rights (HHR) is an extraordinary moment to think back on how far we have come. The enormous debt we all owe to…

Vol 26/1, 2024, pp. 7-9  PDF COMMENTARY, COMMEMORATING 30 YEARS Sofia Gruskin It is both an honor and terrifying to be asked to revisit an article we wrote 30 years ago for Health and Human Rights—one often touted as having been central to…