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Image Credit: James Gathany/CDC By Beatriz Galli and Christine Ricardo Like other mosquito-borne viruses, Zika thrives in areas with substandard sanitation and infrastructure—which are directly linked to state failures to ensure the basic human…

By Neha Acharya and Benjamin Mason Meier Where human rights are central to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), accountability frameworks are necessary to assure the progressive realization of the human right to health. In creating accountability…

Alison Hosie National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) are independent bodies set up with a mandate to promote and protect and human rights in their country. There are over 100 of these institutions in the world and each acts as a bridge between…

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…

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…