Volume 27, Issue 2, December 2025

TABLE OF CONTENTS/FRONT MATTER

Special Section: Exploring Accountability for Health Rights

Special Section: Institutional Corruption and Human Rights in Mental Health

SPECIAL SECTION
EXPLORING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR HEALTH RIGHTS

EDITORIAL
Accountability from Below
Paul Hunt and Anuj Kapilashrami
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VIEWPOINT
Fragile Gains, Shifting Mandates: Civil Society, State Synergy, and the Future of Health Accountability in Maharashtra, India
Dhananjay Kakade
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“That’s a Definition for a World That Does Not Yet Exist”: Reflections on Accountability from a Participatory Action Research Project with People Engaged in the Sex Trades
Marie-Fatima Hyacinthe, Jessica Peñaranda, and Alice M. Miller
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VIEWPOINT
Voices from the Margins: Citizen-Led Health Accountability in Kurdistan
Goran Zangana, Shokh Mohammad, Baxan Jamal, Azadeen M. Amin, Isis Elgibali, and Thomas von der Osten-Sacken
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Te Ᾱo Māori “Accountability”: Indigenous Ways Toward Partnership and Restorative Practice Globally
Emma Rawson-Te Patu
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When Independence Meets Accountability: Upholding Non-Retrogression in the Human Rights System
Tania Agosti, Andrea Baldwin, Susana T. Fried, Jaime M. Gher, Mariah Grant, Alice M. Miller, Mindy Jane Roseman, and Nerima Akinyi Were
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People-Centered Accountability amid the Gaza Genocide: Doctors Against Genocide, Healthcare Workers Watch, and the Freedom Flotilla Coalition
Bilal Irfan, Kaden Venugopal, Michelle Anne Cohen, Aayesha Soni, Roberto Daniel Sirvent, Yipeng Ge, Huwaida Arraf, Karameh Kuemmerle, Nidal Jboor, Maysa Hawwash, and Abdulwhhab Abu Alamrain
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Neglected Harms: Health Workers Organizing for Accountability in Tigray
Dawit Kassa, Zazie Huml, and Bram Wispelwey
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Accountability for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Humanitarian and Disaster Situations: Case Studies from Uganda, Bangladesh, and Nepal
Grady Arnott, Beatrice Odallo, Teddy Nakubulwa, Fazila Banu Lily, and Shankar Singh Dhami
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Human Rights Accountability in Global Health Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships: The Case of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator
Gamze Erdem Türkelli and Rossella De Falco
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Deepening Accountability: The Fair Pharma Scorecard and Access to Medicines in a Fragmented Global Health Law Landscape
Rosalind Turkie and Pramiti Parwani
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No Place to Park the Clinic: Accountability, Expropriation, and the Social Function of Property in Pursuit of Health Equity in South Africa
Lindani Mhlanga and Tamanda Kamwendo
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Temporal Accountability and Taiwan’s National Health Insurance System
Tsung-Ling Lee and Chien-Liang Lee
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Accountability Beyond Blame: Rethinking Maternal Death Surveillance and Response
Mulu Beyene Kidanemariam
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PERSPECTIVE
Accountability Reimagined: Decolonizing Global Health Through Virtue and Subsidiarity
Thana C. de Campos-Rudinsky and Daniel Wainstock
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Chasing Accountability in Global Health: Reflections from Experience on the UN Secretary-General’s Independent Accountability Panel on Women’s, Children’s, and Adolescents’ Health
Alicia Ely Yamin
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SPECIAL SECTION
INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTION AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN MENTAL HEALTH

EDITORIAL
Examining Institutional Corruption in Mental Health: A Key to Transformative Human Rights Approaches
Alicia Ely Yamin, Camila Gianella Malca, and Daniela Cepeda Cuadrado
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Institutional Corruption in the Political Economy of Global Mental Health: Challenges for Transformative Human Rights Praxis
Alicia Ely Yamin and Camila Gianella Malca
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Addressing the Global Mental Health Crisis: How a Human Rights Approach Can Help End the Search for Pharmaceutical Magic Bullets
Lisa Cosgrove
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Without Informed Consent: The Global Export of a Failed Paradigm of Care
Robert Whitaker
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Too Big to Lose Weight: How Pharmaceuticalization Corrupts the Right to Health
Ximena Benavides
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Reflections on Institutional Corruption in Mental Health Policy Implementation: Global Insights and the Eastern European Experience
Dainius Pūras and Julie Hannah
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Regression of Hard-Won Advances in Socialized Medicine: The Emergence of the Private Sector in Health Care in Serbia
Milutin Kostić and Danilo Vuković
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A Hard Pill to Swallow: Pharmacy Chain Dominance and the Commodification of Mental Health in Peru
Alberto Vásquez Encalada
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When Scaling Up Isn’t Enough: The Impacts of Peru’s Mental Health Care Reform on Adolescents
Camila Gianella Malca
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South Africa’s Life Esidimeni Disaster and the Institutional Corruption That Opened the Door to It
Sasha Stevenson
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GENERAL PAPERS

VIEWPOINT
“Politicized” Science and Attacks on Public Health
Joseph J. Amon
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The State of International Human Rights Law on Sexual and Reproductive Health: An Overview
Christina Zampas and Åsa Nihlén
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A Human Rights-Based Approach to Accessing Preimplantation Genetic Testing: The Case of Argentina
Berenice Cerra
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Women’s Perspectives on Barriers to Skilled Birth Attendance and Emergency Obstetric Care in Rural Tanzania: A Right to Health Analysis
Prisca Tarimo, Gillian MacNaughton, Tarek Meguid, and Courtenay Sprague
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Harm Reduction Policing: A Scoping Review Examining Police Training as a Strategy to Overcome Barriers to HIV Services
Diederik Lohman, Nina Sun, and Joseph J. Amon
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PERSPECTIVE
New Legislation Criminalizing Sex Work in Kazakhstan Is Cause for Concern 
Olivia Cordingley, Natalya Zholnerova, Ekaterina Grigorchuk, Denis Gryazev, Karina Alipova, Sholpan Primbetova, Assel Terlikbayeva, Brooke West, Victoria Frye, and Tara McCrimmon
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Conceptualizing the Child’s Right to Oral Health: A Rights-Based Approach to Dental Caries
S. Dominique Mollet
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Trialing Over-the-Counter Mild Pain Medication Access in Queensland Prisons: The Experience of Women Prisoners
Evonne Miller, Lisa Scharoun, Jane Phillips, Roslyn Williams, Jane Hwang, Abbe Winter, Linda Carroli, and Lisa Nissen
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A Narrative Review of Dual Loyalty Conflicts in Custodial Settings and Implications for Community Practice
Michelle Suh, Marc David Robinson, and Holland Kaplan
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PERSPECTIVE
Health Care Justice: Improving Emergency Response to Sexual Violence Against Deaf Women
Carolina Tannenbaum-Baruchi and Orli Grinstein-Cohen
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STUDENT ESSAY
Nongovernmental Organizations: Advocates of Adolescents’ Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights in Kenya 
Irene Tudela Tomàs
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STUDENT ESSAY
Energizing Health: Electricity Access and the Right to Health in Nigeria
Oshokha Caleb Ilegogie
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