Program on Global Health & Human Rights (GHHR) staff, along with 24,000 others who attended the International AIDS Conference(IAC) in July, have returned home from Washington, D.C., to unpack and reflect on their experie...
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Tag: 2012
Professor Gruskin contributes to landmark HIV law report
Professor Sofia Gruskin, director of the Program on Global Health & Human Rights at the USC Institute for Global health, served as a member of the technical advisory group for a landmark report released July 9 by the Glo...
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USC global health conference attracts Pacific Rim leaders
Dozens of academics from across the Pacific Rim visited USC June 23-26 for the 2012 Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Global Health Program Workshop, organized by the USC Institute for Global Health.
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Patient Attrition Between Diagnosis With HIV in Pregnancy-Related Services and Long-Term HIV Care and Treatment Services in Kenya: A Retrospective Study
Background: There has been little attention, until recently, to linking women who test HIV positive in pregnancy-related services to long-term HIV care and treatment services.
Methods: A retrospective review of routine hospi...
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Age Matters: Differential Impact of Service Quality on Contraceptive Uptake Among Post-Abortion Clients in Kenya
This paper shows research on the impact of high quality, user-friendly, comprehensive sliding-scale post-abortion services on clients' uptake of contraception in a Kenyan town. Clients varied from ages 10-46 and received con...
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Biomed Analysis: Time for rights-based women’s health
We need to revive the rights-based agenda and realign research priorities for women's health, says Priya Shetty for Science & Development Network. The article cites GHHR's Professor Gruskin, who explains that "the tunne...
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Program on Global Health & Human Rights launches Network on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights at global research forum
The Global Forum for Health Research—Forum 2012, which took place mid-April in Cape Town, South Africa, brought together change-makers from all sectors of government and civil society affecting health to share their researc...
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Program on Global Health and Human Rights faculty visit Geneva for World Health Organization project
Professor Sofia Gruskin, director of the Program on Global Health and Human Rights (GHHR), and Assistant Professor Laura Ferguson traveled to Geneva to further their work on the World Health Organization project, “Evi...
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Professor Laura Ferguson finalizes draft for submission to UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
Professor Laura Ferguson of the Program on Global Health & Human Rights met with the World Health Organization, Save the Children and other partner organizations in Geneva, Switzerland, to finalize a draft general commen...
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Linking women who test HIV-positive in pregnancy-related services to long-term HIV care and treatment services: a systematic review
Objectives: To quantify attrition between women testing HIV-positive in pregnancy-related services
and accessing long-term HIV care and treatment services in low- or middle-income countries and to
explore the reasons under...
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