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By Antonia Chan The High Court of Kenya has begun reviewing two important cases on the human rights of people living with HIV. The first concerns the forced or coerced sterilization of HIV-positive women; the second challenges a directive from Kenyan…

Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Terra Lawson-Remer, and Susan Randolph Oxford University Press, 2015 ISBN 978-0-19-973551-8 272 pages $26.89 By Health and Human Rights Journal intern Antonia Chan Published July 13, 2015 …

By Antonia Chan Cuba has become the first country to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV, marking a global public health milestone. Executive director of UNAIDS Michel Sidibé called Cuba’s achievement proof that “ending the AIDS epidemic is…

Reproductive Health and Human Rights: The Way Forward Laura Reichenbach and Mindy Jane Roseman University of Pennsylvania Press 2009 ISBN 978-0-8122-2160-2 277 pages $69.95 By Health and Human Rights Journal intern Antonia Chan Published July 9,…

By Alison Blaiklock Health and humanitarian workers in Australia’s immigration detention centers now face imprisonment under Australia’s Border Force Act for talking about human rights abuses that they observe in detention centers. The Act,…

By Antonia Chan  The weapons industry is proverbially up in arms over Pope Francis’s recent declaration that weapons manufacturers—and their investors —are hypocrites if they call themselves Christian. At a rally in Turin, Italy, he noted that…

Routledge Handbook of Global Public Health in Asia Siân M. Griffiths, Jin Ling Tang, Eng Kiong Yeoh, Editors Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014 ISBN 978-0-4156-4382-5 786 pages $225 By Kai Chen The Routledge Handbook of Global…

By Antonia Chan Public health officials from California’s San Diego and Imperial counties have signed a deal with the Mexican state of Baja California, as well as the nonprofits International Community Foundation and Puentes de Esperanza Contra…

By Antonia Chan and Jessica Moore Kaplan  Pope Francis issued a call on Thursday for politicians, corporations, and individuals to confront climate change and environmental exploitation, setting the stage for science and religion to work together…

By Health and Human Rights communications assistant Gabrielle Tyson In an article published in the May 21 edition of The London Review of Books, Health and Human Rights Journal editor-in-chief, Paul Farmer, illuminates the…