Archive: Feb 2018

Claire Bowley, Ann-Mason Furmage, Kanchan Marcus, and Stephanie D. Short Abstract Persons with disabilities are vulnerable to rights violations when accessing health care, including allied health care. However, the commitment of allied health…

Patrick Eba Many commentators in the 1980s dismissed the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Charter) as “a false dawn for the promotion and protection of human rights in Africa”.[1] This pessimism arose from the African Charter’s…

by Fifa Rahman and Fran Quigley In his 2018 State of the Union address US President Donald Trump issued yet another vow to address his country’s crisis in prescription drug pricing, where fast-climbing costs are causing one in four Americans to…

Melanie Edmunds Abstract Australians with severe mental illness experience inequitably high rates of physical illness and shortened life expectancy compared to the general population. A social analysis of this phenomenon incorporating a precis of…