Laura Ferguson, Alexandre Grangeiro, Ana Alexandra Natividad, Paula Massa, Ayra Rodrigues, Dulce Ferraz, and Eliana Miura Zucchi Abstract In this study, we systematically examined the importance of human rights standards and principles for rights-based pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) provision for marginalized adolescents. Nested within a demonstration study of PrEP provision to adolescent men who have sex with men, travestis, and transgender women, we carried out interviews in São Paulo, Brazil with…
The Equity Effect of Universal Health Care
Vol 25/2, 2023, pp. 171-176 PDF PERSPECTIVE Anja Rudiger For well over a century, the politics of universal health care have shaped the development of modern welfare states and their ability to manage economic inequality. Whether governments adopt universal health care in response to workers’ struggles, capitalist labor demand, or other factors, universal health care tends to advance economic redistribution.[1] This equity effect of universal health care is often overlooked,…
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STUDENT ESSAY No Dignity on the Floor: A Human Rights Argument for Adult-Sized Changing Tables in Public Restrooms in the United States
Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 213-221 PDF Geffen Treiman Abstract Many individuals with disabilities utilize adult-sized changing tables to take care of their toileting needs with the help of a caregiver.[1] These tables are not explicitly required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and no legal case in the United States has yet addressed whether the ADA requires public restrooms to have adult changing tables.[2] This paper draws on an…
Food Security as a Social Determinant of Health: Tackling Inequalities in Primary Health Care in Spain
Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 9-21 PDF Mireia Campanera, Mercè Gasull, and Mabel Gracia-Arnaiz Abstract Food insecurity can be understood as a manifestation of health inequality and thus a deprivation of the right to health. This paper explores the strategies followed in primary health care centers in Spain to care for people struggling to regularly access healthy, safe, and sufficient food. Ethnographically based, our study analyzes, on the one hand, the…
Disability Justice as Part of Structural Competency: Infra/structures of Deafness, Cochlear Implantation, and Re/habilitation in India
Vol 25/1, 2023, pp. 39-50 PDF Michele Friedner Abstract In 2014, the Indian state revised a key program providing aids and appliances to disabled people to also include cochlear implants for children living below the poverty line. The program is remarkable in its targeting of the poorest of the poor to provide them with expensive technology made by multinational corporations and its development of new surgery and rehabilitation infrastructures throughout…
“It’s Not Whatever, Because This Is Where the Problem Starts”: Racialized Strategies of Elimination as Determinants of Health in Palestine
Volume 24/2, December 2022, pp. 237-254 | PDF Benjamin Bouquet,* Rania Muhareb,* and Rhona Smith Abstract In this paper, we examine the social construction of race as a determinant of health inequities in Palestine. Race myths about Palestinians conform to the “logic of elimination” integral to settler colonialism, predicated on the dispossession and removal of the Indigenous people from the land. Racialized legal categorizations of Palestinians are deployed in strategies…
STUDENT ESSAY Niger’s Approach to Child Marriage: A Violation of Children’s Right to Health?
Volume 24/2, December 2022, pp. 101-109 | PDF Caroline Crawford Child marriage is a global challenge in need of greater attention. According to reports by UNICEF, 650 million girls and women alive today were married as children.[1] The global rate of child marriage still remains high, with data suggesting that over 12 million girls under 18 years are married every year.[2] With close links to high rates of adolescent pregnancy,…
Involuntary Civil Commitment for Substance Use Disorders in Puerto Rico: Neglected Rights Violations and Implications for Legal Reform
Volume 24/2, December 2022, pp. 59-70 | PDF Caroline M. Parker, Oscar E. Miranda-Miller, and Carmen Albizu-García Abstract Laws facilitating the involuntary civil commitment (ICC) of people with substance use disorders vary considerably internationally and across the United States. Puerto Rico, a colonial territory of the United States since 1898, currently harbors the most punitive ICC legislation in the country. It is the only place in the United States where…
Delayed Justice over Forced Sterilization of a Honduran Woman Living with HIV
Rosa González and Tamil Kendall In May 2022, the President of Chile made a historic public apology to Francisca, a woman living with HIV who was sterilized without her consent. The apology came 20 years after Francisca’s forced sterilization and followed a decade of litigation before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.[1] Forced and coerced sterilization is recognized as a human rights violation under international law.[2] In 2021, the Executive…
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The Politics of Drug Rehabilitation in the Philippines
Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 147-158 | PDF Gideon Lasco and Lee Edson Yarcia Abstract The international consensus to end compulsory drug treatments and close forced rehabilitation facilities needs urgent transformation to country policies. In the Philippines, as with other countries in Asia, rehabilitation can be compulsory and is seen as the humane alternative to the “war on drugs.” In this paper, we present the landscape of rehabilitation and narrate…
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