Perspectives

Paul Hunt Abstract This article tracks the shifting place of the international right to health, and human rights-based approaches to health, in the scholarly literature and United Nations (UN). From 1993 to 1994, the focus began to move from the…

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João Biehl, Mariana P. Socal, Joseph J. Amon In response to our article, “The Judicialization of Health and the Quest for State Accountability,” in which we examine a systematic sample of 1,262 lawsuits seeking access to medicines in the…

Octavio Luiz Motta Ferraz The debate on the judicialization of social and economic rights in general, and the right to health in particular, has been beset by polarization between pro- and anti-judicialization supporters and lack of empirical data to…

Julia Smith Abstract Despite a history of championing HIV/AIDS as a human rights issue, and a rhetorical commitment to health as a human right, European states and institutions have shifted from a rights-based response to a risk management approach…

Gen Sander and Rick Lines  Abstract  HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV), and TB in prisons and other places of detention are serious public health concerns, with prevalence and incidence considerably higher than in the general community because…