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Will Africa’s New Scorecard Promote Universal Health Coverage?
By Sharifah Sekalala
They say, ‘that what gets measured gets done!’1 On 26 August 2016 all 54 African leaders agreed to create a scorecard on Domestic Financing for Health. This scorecard will collate and publish data from all African countries on…
Achieving Healthy People as if Black Lives Matter
David Line and Allen Line
This summer has intensified the discussion in the United States about “Black Lives Matter”. This motto and movement became more prominent after the shooting of a Black man in Ferguson, Missouri, in July…
UN Report Adds to Momentum for Medicines Reform
By Fran Quigley
The United Nations Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on Access to Medicines has issued its widely anticipated report. Previously in this space, I had expressed optimism about the likely substance of the panel’s likely findings. I…
To Choose Peace is to Choose Health
Donna Perry, Christian Guillermet Fernández, and David Fernández Puyana
The Declaration on the Right to Peace was adopted by the UN Human Rights Council on 1 July 2016. Ambassador Christian Guillermet of Costa Rica had led the three years of work in…
Human Rights Remain Critical to HIV Responses: Health and Human Rights Call for Papers
Patrick Eba and Luisa Cabal
We must not become complacent about HIV, nor overlook the lessons learned from the past 35 years. The 21st International AIDS Conference held in Durban, South Africa in July 2016 called on the world to end the…
NHS ruling addresses inequality in access to medicines
By Sharifah Sekalala
This week was a momentous week in the continuing fight against AIDS in the UK. The National Aids Trust vs NHS England opens the way to providing preventive treatment for men who have sex with men (MSM) and sex workers at risk of…
Discrimination against Roma populations to receive special attention in Health and Human Rights Journal
Jacqueline Bhabha, Margareta Matache, and Teresa Sordé Martí
Wherever they live, whether in low- or high-income regions, Roma populations experience significantly greater difficulty accessing health rights than the majority population. A…
Panama Papers, Human Rights and Health: What are the Links?
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…
Who Pays to Fulfill Health Rights? Aid Eligibility, Accountability and Fiscal Space
Sara L.M. Davis
Now that members of the UN have adopted the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the next question is: how to pay for it all? The answers raise questions about aid eligibility, transparency and accountability.
For SDG 3…
Using a Human Rights Accountability Framework to Respond to Zika
Image Credit: James Gathany/CDC
By Beatriz Galli and Christine Ricardo
Like other mosquito-borne viruses, Zika thrives in areas with substandard sanitation and infrastructure—which are directly linked to state failures to ensure the basic human…