Despite increasing attention paid to the apparent integration of human rights into public health policies and programmes, it is difficult to find concrete examples of the benefits that have been derived from linking human rig...
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Tag: Sofia Gruskin
AIDS Treatment In Brazil: Impacts And Challenges
Brazil has one of the developing world’s largest, and arguably most successful, AIDS treatment programs. In this paper we review the treatment program, including controversial policies that Brazil has used to promote widesp...
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Changing global essential medicines norms to improve access to AIDS treatment: Lessons from Brazil
Brazil's large-scale, successful HIV/AIDS treatment programme is considered by many to be a model for other developing countries aiming to improve access to AIDS treatment. Far less is known about Brazil's important role in c...
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“Universal Access: Are National Strategic Plans Sensitive to Human Rights?,” in From the Ground Up: Building Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Care Programs in Resource-Limited Settings
The title of this publication, From the Ground Up, reflects our desire to establish a new paradigm for sharing the enormous wealth of information stemming from over 20 years of HIV/ AIDS program implementation experience. By ...
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Estimating the Lost Benefits of Antiretroviral Drug Use in South Africa
South Africa is one of the countries most severely affected by HIV/AIDS. At the peak of the epidemic, the government, going against consensus scientific opinion, argued that HIV was not the cause of AIDS and that antiretrovir...
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HIV and Pregnancy Intentions: Do Services Adequately Respond to Women’s Needs?
Too little is known about how an HIV diagnosis and access to care and treatment affect women's childbearing intentions. As access to antiretroviral therapy improves, greater numbers of HIV-positive women are living longer, he...
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“Health and Human Rights: Overview,” in the International Encyclopedia of Public Health
Human rights add value to the concrete work of public health in myriad ways. Of the institutions and individuals engaged in these efforts some take health as an entry point, others take human rights but no one approach has pr...
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“Human Rights Approach to Public Health Policy,” in the International Encyclopedia of Public Health (Vol 3.)
Health and human rights, individually, occupy a privileged place in human aspirations, public discourse, and political debates. Yet, the joining of these two intertwined concepts, sets of principles, and desired outcomes has ...
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Universal Access to HIV Prevention, Treatment and Care: Assessing the Inclusion of Human Rights in International and National Strategic Plans
Rhetorical acknowledgment of the value of human rights for the AIDS response continues, yet practical application of human rights principles to national efforts appears to be increasingly deficient. We assess the ways in whic...
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Using human rights to improve maternal and neonatal health: history, connections and a proposed practical approach
We describe the historical development of how maternal and neonatal mortality in the developing world came to be seen as a public-health concern, a human rights concern, and ultimately as both, leading to the development of a...
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