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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…

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…