http://hhrjournal.org/blog Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:37:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Walter Flores, Ana Lorena Ruano, y Denise Phé Funchal [Editor's note: A PDF version of this article is available here.]   Resumen La participación social se ha entendido de muchas formas y existen tipologías en la literatura que la clasifican por los niveles de control por parte de la población en la ... http://hhrjournal.org/blog/perspectives/la-participacion-social-en-guatemala/ Joseph J. Amon, Françoise Girard, and Salmaan Keshavjee [Editor's note: A PDF version of this article is available here.]   Abstract Recent attention to multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR- and XDR-TB) has increased discussion and debate over the extent to which limitations to human rights can be ... http://hhrjournal.org/blog/perspectives/limitations-tb/ Camila Gianella-Malca, Oscar Parra-Vera, Alicia Ely Yamin, y Mauricio Torres-Tovar [Editor's note: A PDF version of this article is available here.] Executive Summary [English] Democratic deliberation or social marketing? The dilemmas of a public definition of health in the context of the implementation of Judgment T–760/08 In July 2008, the Colombian Constitutional ... http://hhrjournal.org/blog/perspectives/deliberacion-democratica/ Agnès Binagwaho, Niloo Ratnayake, Mary C. Smith Fawzi [PDF version] At a time when accountability is a key message for countries, constituencies, and organizations, it is important that major multilateral agencies such as the World Health Organization (WHO) are also held accountable for actions taken or not taken. This ... http://hhrjournal.org/blog/perspectives/holding-multilateral-orgs-accountable-the-failure-of-who/ Claudio Schuftan [PDF version] The article by Dr. Agnès Binagwaho in Health and Human Rights, Volume 10, Number 1, cannot go without a rebuttal, as the argument appears to rest on several fallacies. Recounting the skepticism that existed ten years ago about anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment in resource-poor settings and ... http://hhrjournal.org/blog/perspectives/rights-to-bottle-feeding-in-poor-countries/ In 1995, after producing a successful weekly TV program about apartheid in South Africa against all odds, we broadcast an edition of a new series that explored revolutionary ideas about human rights, such as those then being formulated by a visionary at Harvard named ... http://hhrjournal.org/blog/articles/hhr-rights-a-journalists-perspective/ I’ve been supporting Partners In Health’s project in Lesotho for more than two years – almost since it began. Lesotho is a world away – both literally & figuratively – from the FXB Center office in Boston where I work and where the Health and Human Rights editorial ... http://hhrjournal.org/blog/health-and-human-rights-in-practice/one-baby-at-a-time-saving-children-in-lesotho/ As the nationwide crisis in the housing and credit markets unfolds, a community-based coalition of health care and social service providers, affordable housing developers, and community organizers convened on October 10, 2008 to highlight human rights-based solutions to the crisis in one of America's hardest-hit communities, South Los Angeles. Read and ... http://hhrjournal.org/blog/articles/taming-the-perfect-storm/ On September 17, 2008, Health and Human Rights: An International Journal celebrated its recent re-release as an open access publication with a panel discussion on “Creating on Open Forum to Advance Global Health and Social Justice.” The panel included Dr. Paul Farmer, Editor-in-chief; Dr. Jim Kim, Publisher and Director ... http://hhrjournal.org/blog/articles/making-the-case-for-the-right-to-health/ We post here the original Spanish text of Dr. Armando De Negri Filho's contribution to this issue of Health and Human Rights, titled, "El enfoque de los derechos humanos en calidad de vida y salud y su aplicación en la reestructuración programática y la reorganización de los servicios: reflexiones alrededor ... http://hhrjournal.org/blog/perspectives/a-human-right-approach-to-quality-of-life-and-health-spanish/