Abstract – Litigation as a strategy to hold governments accountable for implementing the right to health

Siri Gloppen Health and Human Rights 10/2 Published December 2008 Abstract This article offers a framework for exploring litigation as a strategy to advance the right to health by holding governments accountable to human rights norms. Since the 1990s, cases in which people go to court to claim their right to health have increased dramatically in resource-poor countries. With issues ranging from access to health services and medication, to discriminatory…

Abstract – Litigation as a strategy to hold governments accountable for implementing the right to health

Siri Gloppen Health and Human Rights 10/2 Published December 2008 Abstract This article offers a framework for exploring litigation as a strategy to advance the right to health by holding governments accountable to human rights norms. Since the 1990s, cases in which people go to court to claim their right to health have increased dramatically in resource-poor countries. With issues ranging from access to health services and medication, to discriminatory…

Abstract – Relative response: Ranking country responses to HIV and AIDS

Chris Desmond, Evan Lieberman, Anita Alban, and Anna-Mia Ekström Health and Human Rights 10/2 Published December 2008 Abstract The aim of this article is to support efforts to hold governments accountable for their commitments to respond to HIV and AIDS. It describes a new approach to ranking countries’ responses in order to facilitate cross-country comparisons. The method uses the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) Declaration of…

Abstract – Sex and the Global Fund: How sex workers, lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people, and men who have sex with men are benefiting from the Global Fund, or not

Susana T. Fried and Shannon Kowalski-Morton Health and Human Rights 10/2 Published December 2008 Abstract The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has allowed countries to bring their response to HIV/AIDS to an unprecedented scale, resulting in innovative projects that reach otherwise underserved communities with HIV prevention, treatment, and care. But in regions and countries where sex workers, men who have sex with men, or lesbian, gay, bisexual,…

Sex and the Global Fund: How sex workers, lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people, and men who have sex with men are benefiting from the Global Fund, or not

Susana T. Fried and Shannon Kowalski-Morton Health and Human Rights 10/2 Published December 2008 Abstract The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has allowed countries to bring their response to HIV/AIDS to an unprecedented scale, resulting in innovative projects that reach otherwise underserved communities with HIV prevention, treatment, and care. But in regions and countries where sex workers, men who have sex with men, or lesbian, gay, bisexual,…

Abstract – Limitations on human rights: Are they justifiable to reduce the burden of TB in the era of MDR- and XDR-TB?

Andrea Boggio, Matteo Zignol, Ernesto Jaramillo, Paul Nunn, Geneviève Pinet, and Mario Raviglione Health and Human Rights 10/2 Published December 2008 Abstract Tuberculosis, in all its forms, poses a serious, demonstrable threat to the health of countless individuals as well as to health as a public good. MDR-TB and, in particular, the emergence of XDR-TB, have re-opened the debate on the importance, and nature, of treatment supervision for basic TB…

Limitations on human rights: Are they justifiable to reduce the burden of TB in the era of MDR- and XDR-TB?

Andrea Boggio, Matteo Zignol, Ernesto Jaramillo, Paul Nunn, Geneviève Pinet, and Mario Raviglione Health and Human Rights 10/2 Published December 2008 Abstract Tuberculosis, in all its forms, poses a serious, demonstrable threat to the health of countless individuals as well as to health as a public good. MDR-TB and, in particular, the emergence of XDR-TB, have re-opened the debate on the importance, and nature, of treatment supervision for basic TB…

Relative response: Ranking country responses to HIV and AIDS

Chris Desmond, Evan Lieberman, Anita Alban, and Anna-Mia Ekström Health and Human Rights 10/2 Published December 2008 Abstract The aim of this article is to support efforts to hold governments accountable for their commitments to respond to HIV and AIDS. It describes a new approach to ranking countries’ responses in order to facilitate cross-country comparisons. The method uses the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) Declaration of…

Abstract – Relative response: Ranking country responses to HIV and AIDS

Chris Desmond, Evan Lieberman, Anita Alban, and Anna-Mia Ekström Health and Human Rights 10/2 Published December 2008 Abstract The aim of this article is to support efforts to hold governments accountable for their commitments to respond to HIV and AIDS. It describes a new approach to ranking countries’ responses in order to facilitate cross-country comparisons. The method uses the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) Declaration of…

Abstract – Women’s reproductive rights in the Amazon Basin of Ecuador: Challenges for transforming policy into practice

Isabel Goicolea, Miguel San Sebastián, and Marianne Wulff Health and Human Rights 10/2 Published December 2008 Abstract Despite advances made by Ecuador in developing policies on reproductive and sexual rights, implementation, and oversight remain a challenge, affecting in particular those living in the Amazon basin. This paper reports on an evaluation of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Orellana, Ecuador, the basis of which was the Health Rights…