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The Health Rights of Women and Children Program at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University, is pleased to announce application and scholarship information for the Course on Health Rights Litigation. This one-week intensive course…

In a February 1 New York Times op-ed, Partners in Health co-founder and Health and Human Rights editor-in-chief Paul Farmer outlines the importance of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. Read the op-ed here. Photo: By DFID – UK…

Richard Pierre Claude University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002 (paperback 2011) ISBN 978-0-8122-2192-3 280 pages $24.95 In Science in the Service of Human Rights, Richard Pierre Claude examines the complex, sometimes fraught relationship between scientific…

By Rob Yates Virtually all countries are trying to achieve universal health coverage, meaning that their populations use appropriate levels of care without experiencing financial hardship. Governments are likely to come under increasing pressure to…

By Amanda Klasing Women’s Rights Division, Human Rights Watch Sixteen-year-old Florence was an orphan doing domestic work when the January 2010 earthquake hit Haiti. She moved with the family she worked for to a displacement camp, where her…

By Evan Lieberman Associate Professor, Department of Politics, Princeton University http://evanlieberman.org/ People in South Africa overwhelmingly believe that addressing HIV/AIDS is firstly the responsibility of national government, in contrast with…