Volume 18 Number 1

Leslie London, Helen Cox, and Fons Coomans Abstract  The right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress (REBSP) is a little-known but potentially valuable right that can contribute to rights-based approaches to addressing…

Mike Frick, Ian Henry, and Erica Lessem Abstract The incorporation of human rights-based approaches into TB programs is gaining traction, but little work has explored the application of human rights norms and principles to TB research (a domain…

Brian Citro, Evan Lyon, Mihir Mankad, Kiran Raj Pandey, and Camila Gianella This special section of Health and Human Rights Journal focuses much-needed attention on tuberculosis (TB) and human rights—particularly the right to health. Even as TB has…

Thomas Nicholson, Catherine Admay, Aaron Shakow, and Salmaan Keshavjee  Abstract The human rights arguments that underpinned the fight against HIV over the last three decades were poised, but ultimately failed, to provide a similar foundation…

Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Valerie J. Bradley, and Barbara J. Sahakian  Health and Human Rights 18/1 Published June 2016 Abstract The incidence of human rights violations in mental health care across nations has been described as a…

Anna R. Coates, Sandra del Pino Marchito, and Bernardino Vitoy Health and Human Rights 18/1 Published June 2016 Abstract Improving the health status of indigenous children is a long-standing challenge. Several United Nations committees have…