Archive: 2019

Meg Davis and David Ruiz Villafranca In exploring what can be learned from the experience of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria in the shift towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC), speakers on a recent high-level panel in Geneva pointed to…

Volume 21/1, June 2019, pp 45 – 47 PDF Izraelle McKinnon, Aun Lor, and Dabney P. Evans Abstract Despite the increasing use of human rights-based approaches to health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) does not…

Jason Hung Over the past decade, HIV rates have increased exponentially in Hong Kong. The number of individuals diagnosed has doubled every year between 2006 and 2017, although the rapid increase in HIV diagnosis may be ascribed to the increasing…

Katrina Perehudoff and Jennifer Sellin Over 30 states and 40 business and civil society groups debated strategies for affordable and sustainable medicines prices at last month’s second WHO Fair Pricing Forum—co-sponsored by the government of South…

Volume 21/1, June 2019, pp 215 – 225 PDF Hope Ferdowsian, Katherine McKenzie, and Amy Zeidan Abstract Due to global events in recent years, applications for political asylum have increased, although the number of people granted asylum…

Sara L.M. Davis Do health aid donors transitioning out of middle-income countries have any obligations under human rights law? In February, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and UNAIDS held a consultation on human rights…