"As health providers increasingly engage in humanitarian relief we, willingly or not, become subject to global scrutiny for the human rights impacts of our actions. Public health emergencies often take place in areas of soci...
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Tag: 2010
Group raises awareness of forced sterilization among HIV positive women
In early September, the case of three HIV-positive women who filed suit saying they were sterilized at public health facilities without their consent resumed in the High Court of Namibia, garnering substantial international a...
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Neglected Realities: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Abortion in the Context of HIV
Women around the world have been disproportionately affected by HIV and AIDS, particularly in the regions hardest hit by the pandemic, such as sub-Saharan Africa. But with increased global access to antiretroviral therapy (AR...
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Are Drug Companies Living Up to Their Human Rights Responsibilities? Moving Toward Assessment
The human rights responsibilities of drug companies have been considered for years by nongovernmental organizations, but were most sharply defined in a report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, submitted to ...
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‘Rights-based approaches’ to health policies and programs: Articulations, ambiguities, and assessment
Rights-based approaches (RBAs) to health encompass an exciting range of ways that the United Nations, governments, and non-governmental organizations incorporate human rights into public health efforts. By reviewing the acade...
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Who, and what, causes health inequities? Reflections on emerging debates from an exploratory Latin American/North American workshop
Rapidly rising interest - from national and international health organisations, governments, civil society, the private sector and myriad academic disciplines - in what has become known as the ‘social determinants of health...
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Using human rights for sexual and reproductive health: improving legal and regulatory frameworks
The world health report 2008 draws attention to the significance of policies for achieving primary health care objectives, including both those necessary to make health systems function properly and those beyond the health se...
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From Conception to Realization: A Human Right to Health (Letter to the Editor)
"John Arras and Elizabeth Fenton are, it seems, trying to write a provocative piece ("Bioethics and Human Rights: Access to Health-Related Goods," Sept-Oct 2009). Sharp digs at the United Nations generally and the World Healt...
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Gender, Sex, and Sexuality—Same, Different, or Equal?
In this theme issue, ‘‘Gender and Sexuality,’’ we celebrate these victories and consider also the assumptions at play when these terms are used in our work. Health disparities related to gender affect a complex array ...
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2010 (January – December)
December 2010
Manual on a Human Rights-Based Approach to Programming Recently Published
In collaboration with UNFPA, PIHHR has developed and field-tested training materials for application of a culturally sensitive, gende...
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