Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp 313 – 316 PDF Sara Wallach, Alex Garner, Sean Howell, Tyler Adamson, Stefan Baral, and Chris Beyrer As of August 12, 2020, there are over 20 million confirmed cases of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) worldwide with over 744,000 deaths.[1] Due to existing disparities in health outcomes, the consequences of this pandemic for LGBTQ+ individuals could be magnified in scope and severity.[2] Gay, bisexual, and other…
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Challenging Abortion Rights: Proposed Legislation in Italy Daniel Pizzolato, Dorothea Chatzikonstantinou, and Alice Cavolo, 22 April 2024 To Achieve a Healthier World, Global Health Law and Policy Must Be Grounded in Human Rights Book Review by David Patterson, 8 April 2024 US Clinicians Face a Dual Loyalty Crisis over Reproductive Health Care Ranit Mishori, Payal K. Shah, Karen Naimer, and Michele Heisler, 3 March 2024 Fighting the (Mis)fortunes in Global…
The Evolution of the Right to Health in the Shadow of COVID-19
Lisa Forman As a graduate student in the early 2000s coming to grips with the meaning and interpretation of the right to health, few publications had as great an impact on me as the Harvard Law School and Francois-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center’s 1993 “Interdisciplinary Discussion on Economic and Social Rights and the Right to Health.”[1] It captured a discussion between multiple heavy hitters of the field, including Jonathan Mann, then…
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Two Row Wampum, Human Rights, and the Elimination of Tuberculosis from High-Incidence Indigenous Communities
Volume 21/1, June 2019, pp 253 – 265 PDF Richard Long, Courtney Heffernan,* Melissa Cardinal-Grant, Amber Lynn, Lori Sparling, Dorilda Piche, Mara Nokohoo, and Diane Janvier Abstract The Two Row Wampum belt is a symbolic record of the first agreement between Europeans and American Indians on Turtle Island (North America). The agreement outlined a commitment to friendship and peace between people living perpetually in parallel, with each party recognizing the…
Universal Health Care? (Un)documented Migrants in Southeast Asia
CHAN Chee Khoon In recent years, WHO Member States have been urged to speed up reforms to ensure that all persons can have timely access to quality health services without falling into financial hardship.1 In the Southeast Asian region, citizens of Malaysia and Singapore have long benefited from widely accessible tax-funded or subsidized government healthcare, and Brunei nationals (who do not pay personal income taxes) enjoy wide-ranging health and social…
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Limitations on human rights: Are they justifiable to reduce the burden of TB in the era of MDR- and XDR-TB?
Andrea Boggio, Matteo Zignol, Ernesto Jaramillo, Paul Nunn, Geneviève Pinet, and Mario Raviglione Health and Human Rights 10/2 Published December 2008 Abstract Tuberculosis, in all its forms, poses a serious, demonstrable threat to the health of countless individuals as well as to health as a public good. MDR-TB and, in particular, the emergence of XDR-TB, have re-opened the debate on the importance, and nature, of treatment supervision for basic TB…
HIV/AIDS in Cuba: A rights-based analysis
Tim Anderson Health and Human Rights 11/1 Published June 2009 Abstract The common assertion that Cuba’s achievements in HIV/AIDS control have come at a cost in human rights is reinforced by US hostility toward its small neighbor. Nevertheless, a rights-based analysis may be one useful way of examining the actual Cuban experience. By reference to the United Nation’s Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, this paper examines the Cuban experience as…
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