HIV and the Right to Health in Colombia

Corey Prachniak-Rincón and Jimena Villar de Onís Congratulations to Corey Prachniak-Rincón and Jimena Villar de Onís – this peer-reviewed full paper is a winner in the Harvard FXB Health and Human Rights Consortium Student Essay Competition 2016. The authors were both students at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Abstract The first Colombian to claim a judicially enforceable right to health was a gay man living with HIV, who in…

Transforming Policy into Justice: The Role of Health Advocates in Mozambique

Ellie Feinglass, Nadja Gomes, and Vivek Maru   Abstract Despite expanding policy commitments in many poor countries, health care is often a failure at the point of delivery. Lack of information, poor enforcement, and power dynamics prevent those whose rights have been violated from pursuing redress. In Mozambique, grassroots health advocates work to address this gap between policy and reality by blending approaches known as legal empowerment and social accountability. They…

Reproductive Health Policy in Tunisia: Women’s Right to Reproductive Health and Gender Empowerment

Nada Amroussia, Isabel Goicolea, and Alison Hernandez Abstract Although Tunisia is regarded as a pioneer in the Middle East and North Africa in terms of women’s status and rights, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, evidence points to a number of persisting challenges. This article uses the Health Rights of Women Assessment Instrument (HeRWAI) to analyze Tunisia’s reproductive health policy between 1994 and 2014. It explores the extent to…

Health for All? Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and the Implementation of the Right to Access to Health Care in South Africa

Alexandra Müller Abstract The framework of health and human rights provides for a comprehensive theoretical and practical application of general human rights principles in health care contexts that include the well-being of patients, providers, and other individuals within health care. This is particularly important for sexual and gender minority individuals, who experience historical and contemporary systematical marginalization, exclusion, and discrimination in health care contexts. In this paper, I present two…

Lessons from Jonathan Mann: The Ten Commandments on Multidrug-Resistant TB

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 Court of Australia (1996-2009) and President of the International Commission of Jurists (1995-1998). Kirby is a member of the Health and Human Rights Journal editorial board.  I welcome the latest issue of the Health and Human Rights Journal with a Special…