Volume 12, Number 2

Alicia Ely Yamin Health and Human Rights 12/2 Published December 2010 Abstract The case of Haiti’s devastating earthquake and the reactions it has elicited sharply illustrate an array of seemingly dichotomous ways of understanding obligations of…

Benson Oduor Ojwang, Emily Atieno Ogutu, and Peter Maina Matu Health and Human Rights 12/2 Published December 2010 Abstract The institutionalization of patients’ rights is a recent phenomenon in Kenya. In 2006, Kenya’s Ministry of Health initiated policy…

Laura M. Bisaillon Health and Human Rights 12/2 Published December 2010 Abstract This paper focuses on the key human rights consequences of the HIV screening policy that applies to all permanent and some temporary resident applicants to Canada. This…

Laura M. Bisaillon Health and Human Rights 12/2 Published December 2010   We were uncomfortable with the fact that the Canadian HIV policy did not apply for work visa applications for nationals of all countries. We started to say jokes like, “HIV…

Timothy P. Williams, Elaine J. Alpert, Roy Ahn, Elizabeth Cafferty, Wendy Macias Konstantopoulos, Nadya Wolferstan, Judith Palmer Castor, Anita M. McGahan, and Thomas F. Burke Health and Human Rights 12/2 Published December 2010 Abstract This social…

Timothy P. Williams, Elaine J. Alpert, Roy Ahn, Elizabeth Cafferty, Wendy Macias Konstantopoulos, Nadya Wolferstan, Judith Palmer Castor, Anita M. McGahan, and Thomas F. Burke Health and Human Rights 12/2 Published December 2010 Abstract This social…