Archive: Jun 2024

Vol 26/1, 2024, pp. 27-30  PDF COMMENTARY,  COMMEMORATING 30 YEARS Tlaleng Mofokeng Lynn P. Freedman conceptualized human rights as being rooted in a rejection of the imposition of the will of any one person or group over another. In…

Vol 26/1, 2024, pp. 21-25  PDF COMMENTARY, COMMEMORATING 30 YEARS Sharifah Sekalala and Kene Esom Introduction The 1998 article “Human Rights and AIDS in South Africa: From Right Margin to Left Margin” by Mark Heywood and Morna Cornell…

Vol 26/1, 2024, pp. 15-19  PDF COMMENTARY, COMMEMORATING 30 YEARS Lawrence O. Gostin and Eric A. Friedman The year was 1994. Contracting HIV was a death sentence. Triple therapy was still two years away in the United States. Efforts to…

Vol 26/1, 2024, pp. 11-14  PDF COMMENTARY, COMMEMORATING 30 YEARS Stephen P. Marks This 30th anniversary of Health and Human Rights (HHR) is an extraordinary moment to think back on how far we have come. The enormous debt we all owe to…

Vol 26/1, 2024, pp. 7-9  PDF COMMENTARY, COMMEMORATING 30 YEARS Sofia Gruskin It is both an honor and terrifying to be asked to revisit an article we wrote 30 years ago for Health and Human Rights—one often touted as having been central to…

Vol 26/1, 2024, pp. 1-6  PDF EDITORIAL Joseph J. Amon and Carmel Williams Last year marked the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As anniversaries go, it was kind of a quiet one, with global conflicts and crises…