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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…
Facilitating Accountability for the Right to Health: Mainstreaming WHO Participation in Human Rights Monitoring
By Neha Acharya and Benjamin Mason Meier
Where human rights are central to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), accountability frameworks are necessary to assure the progressive realization of the human right to health. In creating accountability…
Contributing to the Accountability Web: The Role of NHRIs and the SDGs
Alison Hosie
National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) are independent bodies set up with a mandate to promote and protect and human rights in their country. There are over 100 of these institutions in the world and each acts as a bridge between…
The Problems with the Proposed Indicators for Monitoring Universal Health Coverage in the Sustainable Development Goals
SDG Goal 3: Good Health
Audrey R. Chapman
Writing in 2014, Alicia Ely Yamin and Vanessa Boulanger showed how the global approach to women’s sexual and reproductive health was skewed by the selection of targets and indicators chosen to measure…
Book Review: Litigating the Right to Health in Africa: Challenges and Prospects
By Ciara O’Connell
The judicialization of the right to health has been lauded and critiqued as both a positive and negative in bringing justice to health care. Litigating the Right to Health in Africa*, a volume edited by Ebenezer Durojaye, begins…