Archive: 2016

SDG Goal 3: Good Health Audrey R. Chapman Writing in 2014, Alicia Ely Yamin and Vanessa Boulanger showed how the global approach to women’s sexual and reproductive health was skewed by the selection of targets and indicators chosen to measure…

By Ciara O’Connell The judicialization of the right to health has been lauded and critiqued as both a positive and negative in bringing justice to health care. Litigating the Right to Health in Africa*, a volume edited by Ebenezer Durojaye, begins…

Katharina Ó Cathaoir Health and Human Rights 18/1 Published June 2016 Abstract Childhood obesity is now a global health epidemic, yet the obligations of states to prevent obesity through fulfillment of the right to health…

Patrick Michael Eba Health and Human Rights 18/1 Published June 2016 Abstract Established under Section 25 of the HIV Prevention and Control Act of 2006, the HIV and AIDS Tribunal of Kenya is the only HIV-specific statutory body in the…

Anna Torriente, Alexander Tadion, and Lee-Nah Hsu Health and Human Rights 18/1 Published June 2016 Abstract Prisons and other closed settings are high-risk environments for HIV and tuberculosis (TB) transmission. Prisoners often experience…

Fran Quigley Full disclosure: initially, I was not very excited about the announcement of the convening of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines. Every human rights advocate has learned to approach with…