A USC-led project headed by Sofia Gruskin, director of the Program on Global Health & Human Rights at the USC Institute for Global Health, aims to ensure HIV-positive women are at the center of decision-making regarding t...
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Safeguarding Abortion: A Matter of Reproductive Rights
Women seek abortions, legal and safe or not, if they have an unwanted pregnancy because it is too late for contraception. Contraception must be promoted to reduce unwanted pregnancy, but all women who find themselves with an ...
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Health and Human Rights in a Changing World
Health and Human Rights in a Changing World is a comprehensive and contemporary collection of readings and original material examining health and human rights from a global perspective. Editors Grodin, Tarantola, Annas, and G...
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Addressing Social Injustice in a Human Rights Context
This publication co-authored by USC Institute for Global Health Director Sofia Gruskin aims to identify public health, medicine, health, social sciences, and other fields, this integrated book documents the adverse effects of...
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2013 (January – July)
July 2013
Experts discuss human rights and chronic disease at USC
Global experts convened at USC to discuss a human rights approach to preventing and controlling noncommunicable diseases at a conference organized by the USC...
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“Participation and human rights: impact on women’s and children’s health. What does the literature tell us?,” in Women’s and Children’s Health: Evidence of Impact of Human Rights
"Public health, medicine and human rights share a common goal: to improve the health, life and well-being of individuals, communities and populations. Moreover, they are deeply complementary. The right to the highest attainab...
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“Using Indicators to Determine the Contribution of Human Rights to Public Health Efforts,” in Health and Human Rights in a Changing World
Health and Human Rights in a Changing World is a comprehensive and contemporary collection of readings and original material examining health and human rights from a global perspective. Editors Grodin, Tarantola, Annas, and G...
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“HIV and AIDS,” in The Right to Health: Theory and Practice
This guide, written for and by health and human rights students and professionals, aims to present the foundations of public health and human rights with a specific focus on health. Cases from developed and developing countri...
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Sexual and reproductive health and rights experts launch global research network
USC hosted nine international experts from Nov. 27 to 30 to discuss the state of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) around the world and to launch an international research network.
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Pregnancy decisions of women living with HIV: the need for multidisciplinary perspectives
Women living with HIV, like all women, have the right to determine the number and spacing of their children. With the ultimate goal of ensuring that women living with HIV are at the center of decision-making about their sexua...
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