Sophie Smyth and Anna Triponel Health and Human Rights 15/1 Published June 2013 Abstract Experience teaches that the Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) will need a financing facility if it is to garner widespread acceptance among low-income countries. The promise of financing is a well-established carrot to encourage countries to assume new convention-imposed obligations that will be costly to carry out. Promising to provide financing as part of an…
Funding global health
Sophie Smyth and Anna Triponel Health and Human Rights 15/1 Published June 2013 Abstract Experience teaches that the Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) will need a financing facility if it is to garner widespread acceptance among low-income countries. The promise of financing is a well-established carrot to encourage countries to assume new convention-imposed obligations that will be costly to carry out. Promising to provide financing as part of an…
Abstract – Advancing the right to health through global organizations: The potential role of a Framework Convention on Global Health
Eric A. Friedman, Lawrence O. Gostin, Kent Buse Health and Human Rights 15/1 Published June 2013 Abstract Organizations, partnerships, and alliances form the building blocks of global governance. Global health organizations thus have the potential to play a formative role in determining the extent to which people are able to realize their right to health. This article examines how major global health organizations, such as WHO, the Global Fund to…
Advancing the right to health through global organizations: The potential role of a Framework Convention on Global Health
Eric A. Friedman, Lawrence O. Gostin, Kent Buse Health and Human Rights 15/1 Published June 2013 Abstract Organizations, partnerships, and alliances form the building blocks of global governance. Global health organizations thus have the potential to play a formative role in determining the extent to which people are able to realize their right to health. This article examines how major global health organizations, such as WHO, the Global Fund to…