Perspectives

Letter to the Editor Michael Kirby   The Hon. Michael Kirby, AC, CMG, is a Member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High–Level Panel on Access to Essential Medicines (2015-2016). He was Justice of the High…

Michael Kirby   Health and Human Rights 18/1 Published June 2016 The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG delivered this Franz-Hermann Brüner lecture at the 16th Conference of International Investigators, in Montreux, Switzerland, on September 30,…

Allan Maleche and Nerima Were Background The tension between public health and individual rights raises key questions in the face of public health crises such as tuberculosis (TB) and Ebola: What are the circumstances that warrant the obligatory…

Delan Devakumar and Rob Yates Health and Human Rights 18/1 Published June 2016 A disturbing but common practice in many developing countries is the detainment of women who have recently given birth and who cannot afford their hospital charges.…

Authors Agnes Binagwaho, Sardis H. Harward, Theophile Dushime, Jean de Dieu Ngirabega, Parfait Uwaliraye, Cathy Mugeni, Kirstin W. Scott, Marie Aimee Muhimpundu, Jean Pierre Nyemazi Introduction The right to the highest attainable state of…

Fran Quigley Introduction The flaws of the modern medicine patent system are widely decried. The current system fails to develop medicines to address the health needs of the global poor and creates a platform for unaffordable pricing of the…

Eleanor Emery, Carmen Stellar, Krista Dubin, Taryn Clark, Aynsley Duncan, Alejandro Lopez, Joanne Ahola, Terri Edersheim, and Nicole Sirotin  Introduction  Every year, thousands of people seek legal asylum in the United States after…

Citizens in Singapore benefit from government funded health care, but migrant workers often do not (image credit John Siegel) CHAN Chee Khoon In recent years, WHO Member States have been urged to speed up reforms to ensure that all persons can have…

SDG Goal 3: Good Health Paul Hunt It is widely recognised that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) need to be supported by more effective follow-up and review—or accountability—processes than were available to the Millennium Development Goals…

(photo credit Raul Lieberwirth) Harvard FXB Health and Human Rights Consortium Student Essay Competition 2015. Georgetown University’s winning essay was written for the course “Business and Healthy Lifestyles,” taught by Professor Roger Magnasson,…