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Reproductive Health and HIV: Do International Human Rights Law and Policy Matter?

Posted on January 1, 2007August 21, 2018

Protecting reproductive rights is understood to be a critical component of working to ensure reproductive health. Likewise, promotion and protection of human rights is considered key to an effective AIDS response. As HIV and ... read more →

Jonathan Mann: Founder of the Health and Human Rights Movement

Posted on November 1, 2006August 21, 2018

"JONATHAN MANN COULD BE best characterized by 3 words: vision, audacity, and charisma. Mann would be nearing his 60th birthday had he not—together with his wife, Mary Lou Clements-Mann—been among the victims of a plane cr... read more →

Human Rights and Ethics in Public Health

Posted on November 1, 2006August 21, 2018

Dedication of this issue of the Journal to the theme of “Rights and Ethics” complements this month’s Annual Meeting and Exposition of the American Public Health Association, titled “Public Health and Human Rights,” ... read more →

Orphan Care in Botswana’s Working Households: Growing Responsibilities in the Absence of Adequate Support

Posted on August 1, 2006August 21, 2018

Objectives: Botswana has one of the world’s highest HIV-prevalence rates and the world’s highest percentages of orphaned children among its population. We assessed the ability of income-earning households in Botswana to ... read more →

Gender-based Violence and HIV: A Literature Review

Posted on August 1, 2006August 21, 2018

This is a review of publications addressing aspects of the intersection between gender-based violence (GBV) and HIV. Initially, this review was concerned with bringing together literature which integrated sexuality and hum... read more →

Rights-Based Approaches to Health: Something for Everyone

Posted on January 1, 2006August 21, 2018

"Rights-based approaches to health have gained a prominence not even imaginable when attention to nondiscrimination against People Living with HIV became entrenched in the first Global AIDS Strategy over 20 years ago. We have... read more →

Social Injustice and Public Health

Posted on August 25, 2005August 21, 2018

This publication co-authored by USC Institute for Global Health Director Sofia Gruskin documents the adverse effects of social injustice on health and makes recommendations on what needs to be done to reduce social injustice ... read more →

Perspectives on Health and Human Rights

Posted on January 1, 2005August 21, 2018

This anthology of articles collected by a cast of award-winning scholars in the field of public health illustrates that promoting and protecting human rights is fundamental to promoting and protecting health. New issues cove... read more →

Poverty, equity, human rights and health

Posted on January 1, 2003August 21, 2018

Those concerned with poverty and health have sometimes viewed equity and human rights as abstract concepts with little practical application, and links between health, equity and human rights have not been examined systematic... read more →

Health and Human Rights: A Reader

Posted on January 1, 1999August 21, 2018

Health and Human Rights: A Reader, including contributions by doctors, lawyers and government representatives, is the first comprehensive anthology of essays in this new field to address the balance between public health and ... read more →