Category: Volume 10, Number 1

Agnès Binagwaho Health and Human Rights 10/1 Published June 2008   Ten years ago, in international public health circles, it was common to suppose that people with HIV in developing countries had no right to life — although health experts avoided stating the point quite so bluntly. The problem was that survival for those in advanced stages of AIDS depended on their receiving triple therapy with antiretroviral medicines (ARVs) —…

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Agnès Binagwaho   Health and Human Rights 10/1 Published June 2008   Ten years ago, in international public health circles, it was common to suppose that people with HIV in developing countries had no right to life — although health experts avoided stating the point quite so bluntly. The problem was that survival for those in advanced stages of AIDS depended on their receiving triple therapy with antiretroviral medicines (ARVs)…

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Laura Turiano and Lanny Smith Health and Human Rights 10/1 Published June 2008 The move from many to everyone is a small semantic shift, but one with extraordinarily radical consequences. – Hardt and Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire1 Abstract The People’s Health Movement (PHM) is a global network at the intersection of many health and human rights organizations that has articulated and attempted to put into practice a human rights-based approach…

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Laura Turiano and Lanny Smith Health and Human Rights 10/1 Published June 2008 The move from many to everyone is a small semantic shift, but one with extraordinarily radical consequences. – Hardt and Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire1 Abstract The People’s Health Movement (PHM) is a global network at the intersection of many health and human rights organizations that has articulated and attempted to put into practice a human rights-based approach…

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Anja Rudiger Health and Human Rights 10/1 Published June 2008   Abstract Although the crisis of health care in the United States is widely acknowledged – marked by poor health outcomes, high costs, unequal access, and widening health inequities – its structural underpinnings have not been adequately addressed, and reformers have settled on promoting piecemeal measures to avoid disruption. The human right to health care offers an analytical and advocacy…

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Anja Rudiger Health and Human Rights 10/1 Published June 2008   Abstract Although the crisis of health care in the United States is widely acknowledged – marked by poor health outcomes, high costs, unequal access, and widening health inequities – its structural underpinnings have not been adequately addressed, and reformers have settled on promoting piecemeal measures to avoid disruption. The human right to health care offers an analytical and advocacy…

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Olga Shevchenko and Renée C. Fox   Health and Human Rights 10/1 Published June 2008   Abstract The international humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is strongly committed to principles of universalism, egalitarianism, and equity, in both its internal and external relations. Nevertheless, the organization distinguishes between so-called “national” staff members (those who are indigenous to the countries where MSF projects are located), and “expatriate” staff (those who are involved…

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Olga Shevchenko and Renée C. Fox   Health and Human Rights 10/1 Published June 2008   Abstract The international humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is strongly committed to principles of universalism, egalitarianism, and equity, in both its internal and external relations. Nevertheless, the organization distinguishes between so-called “national” staff members (those who are indigenous to the countries where MSF projects are located), and “expatriate” staff (those who are involved…

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Tarek Meguid   Health and Human Rights 10/1 Published June 2008  It is possible to adapt to a given situation precisely because you have got to live it, and you have got to live it every day. But adapting does not mean that you forget. You go to the mill every day — it is always unacceptable to you, it has always been unacceptable to you, and it remains so…

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Tarek Meguid   Health and Human Rights 10/1 Published June 2008  It is possible to adapt to a given situation precisely because you have got to live it, and you have got to live it every day. But adapting does not mean that you forget. You go to the mill every day — it is always unacceptable to you, it has always been unacceptable to you, and it remains so…

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