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World Health Day: Power Imbalances and Inequalities Big Part of Poor Mental Health
Dainius Puras
Every year, World Health Day falls on 7 April, the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO). Each year, WHO observes this occasion by promoting an important global health issue.
This year, the theme is…
New WHO Leader Will Need Human Rights to Counter Nationalistic Populism
Eric Friedman and Lawrence O. Gostin
The need for WHO leadership on human rights—and for global leadership on health and human rights beyond WHO—has always been present, yet has become ever more pressing. A reactionary, nationalist populism has been…
How We Fix This: The Case for a Publicly Financed Medicines Research System
Fran Quigley
“OK, but tell us what we would replace it with.”
The response in the online comments section following one of my articles on access to medicines may have been a bit curt, but the point was well-taken. Virtually no one who is…
Drug Prices and FDA Reform on Trump’s Radar
Fran Quigley
President Donald Trump’s meeting with pharmaceutical industry executives on 31 January signalled his intention to force down drug prices, but as a sweetener to the industry he is also looking at easing drug regulatory processes.
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The Right to Peace: From Ratification to Realization
Donna J. Perry, Christian Guillermet Fernández, and David Fernández Puyana
On 19 December 2016, the Declaration on the Right to Peace was ratified by the plenary of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in a majority vote by its Member States (Resolution…
Legislative Changes in Indonesia will Limit Access to Contraception and Breach Rights
Citta Widagdo
Health and human rights advocates in Indonesia are alarmed at the public health and human rights implications of a proposed legislative change to limit the distribution of contraceptive supplies, and control the provision of information…
Disease and epidemics the only winners in Duterte’s ‘war on drugs’
Jonas Bagas
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte repeatedly declares that the government is winning the ‘war on drugs’. Despite criticism from home and abroad, he insists that the bloody war is delivering results: ‘overall crime rate is down’; ‘close…
Will Trump March-In and Bring Down Drug Prices?
Fran Quigley
In the interview that accompanied President-elect Donald Trump’s Time magazine Person of the Year story, he said, “I’m going to bring down drug prices. I don’t like what has happened with drug prices.”
If you don’t find yourself…
Coercive and Cruel: Forced Sterilisation of Romani Women
Magda Matache, Guest Editor: Romani Global Diaspora: Implementation of the Right to Health, in Health and Human Rights, December 2017
The Health and Human Rights Journal is calling for papers for a special section on Romani Global Diaspora:…
Want “Good Pharma?” One Example of What That May Look Like
Fran Quigley
The long list of complaints about the current system of medicine access and pharmacological research is well-known and well-documented, including in the Health and Human Rights Journal.
Those complaints start with patients facing…