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Alicia Ely Yamin Alicia Ely Yamin’s TEDx talk “Patterns of health and ill-health are not just the result of biological or behavioral factors, but they are also the results of power relations, and often – as Paul Farmer says – pathologies of…

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 …