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SDG Goal 3: Good Health Audrey R. Chapman The draft Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are likely to be adopted at the September 2015 UN summit, identify achieving universal health coverage (UHC) as one component of the omnibus health…

SDG Goal 3: Good Health By Carmel Williams and Alison Blaiklock This month world leaders gather at the UN Summit in New York to finalise and adopt the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The development of the SDGs has been a far more global…

TPPA protests in Auckland, New Zealand (photo courtesy of Rhys Jones) By Fran Quigley The most important update on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) is that there is no Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. At least not yet. Shortly…

Caption: Doctors Against the Border Force Act protesting in Brisbane, 8 August 2015 By Alison Blaiklock Doctors, health workers, teachers and other professionals across Australia continue to demonstrate against the legislation that bars health and…

By Unarose Hogan If I asked you to envision a country where reproductive health rights are denied to the extent that women must travel to neighboring countries for abortion “asylum” in 2015; where emergency contraception without a prescription became…

The Right to Health of the Child: An Analytical Exploration of the International Normative Framework S.I. Spronk-van der Meer Intersentia ISBN 978-1-78068-272-3 345 pages $29.95 By Health and Human Rights Journal intern Antonia Chan The Right to…

Alicia Ely Yamin Alicia Ely Yamin’s TEDx talk “Patterns of health and ill-health are not just the result of biological or behavioral factors, but they are also the results of power relations, and often – as Paul Farmer says – pathologies of…

By Antonia Chan On Monday, President Obama unveiled a landmark plan to combat climate change: new regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that require states to meet carbon emission reduction standards based on their individual…

By Antonia Chan Leading AIDS scientists and officials have released the Vancouver Consensus at the opening of the International AIDS Society Conference, calling for a worldwide shift to providing immediate antiretroviral treatment (ARV) after…

By Steven H. Miles, MD The essence of the scandal at the US American Psychological Association (APA) is quite simple. The US Department of Defense (DOD) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) forged a secret partnership with APA leaders to create a…