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Global Health Risks

16 December 2009 - This report is a comprehensive assessment of leading risks to global health. It provides detailed global and regional estimates of…

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WHO Access and Control Newsletter: N5 October 2009

This newsletter will update you on both issues of drug control as well as access to controlled medicines, especially if the World Health Organization…

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Health and Human Rights: A Resource Guide (March 2009)

This Resource Guide is a user-friendly, multi-purpose tool that can be used on a regular basis on the job. The Guide covers the basic…

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“Realizing the Right to Health”

The Swiss Human Rights book, Vol.3, “Realizing the Right to Health” was written by ANDREW CLAPHAM and MARY ROBINSON and launched on 22 June,…

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International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights (2006)

OHCHR and UNAIDS published the International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights in 1998 as a tool for States in designing, co-ordinating and implementing…

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Police, Harm Reduction, and HIV

This fact sheet, produced by the OSI International Harm Reduction Development Program, demonstrates how such police practices help fuel HIV epidemics by driving drug…

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At What Cost? HIV and Human Rights Consequences of the Global “War on Drugs”

This book examines the descent of the global war on drugs into a war on people who use drugs. From Puerto Rico to Phnom…

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GFATM - Scaling Up for Impact:: Results Report ("The Green Report")

The Global Fund recently published its 2008 progress report, entitled Scaling Up For Impact: Results Report, otherwise known as “the Green Report”, and the…

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H1N1 Flu Booklet - things to know, things to do…

The recent outbreaks of disease in people globally are caused by a new influenza (or “flu”) type A (H1N1) virus. There is a human…

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Health and Human Rights Linkages

Promoting and protecting health and respecting, protecting and fulfilling human rights are inextricably linked.

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Health System Performance in Armenia: Strategic Review Summary

This report is a brief summary of results of the first HSPA exercise in Armenia. It gives key illustrative examples of how HSPA indicators…

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The 2007 ESPAD Report

Björn Hibell, Ulf Guttormsson, Salme Ahlström, Olga Balakireva, Thoroddur Bjarnason, Anna Kokkevi, Ludwig Kraus (2009): The 2007 ESPAD Report - Substance Use Among Students…

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Guide to Implementing Family Skills Training Programmes

This guide is developed for anybody, who is interested in developing, adapting and implementing an evidence-based family skills training programme. The guide offers background…

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Armenia: Health System Review (2006)

The Health Systems in Transition profles are country-based reports that provide a detailed description of a health system and of reform and policy initiatives…

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World Drug Report 2008

The World Drug Report presents comprehensive information on the illicit drug situation. It provides detailed estimates and trends on production, trafficking and consumption in…

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Improved measures for reduction of the illicit demand for narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances

This paper was released by the UN Economic and Social Council at the 13th Plenary Meeting on May 25, 1988.

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World report on violence and health

The World Health Organization launched the first World report on violence and health on October 3rd, 2002. Since then, more than 30 governments have…

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World report on child injury prevention

Every day more than 2000 children and teenagers die from an injury which could have been prevented. This joint WHO / UNICEF report is…

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HTW: An Unbreakable Cycle

In China, illicit drug use is an administrative offense and Chinese law dictates that drug users “must be rehabilitated.” In reality, police raids on…

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WHO Fact Sheet No31: The Right to Health

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the WHO have issued fact sheets on the Right to Health to explain…

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Declaration on the Promotion of Patients’ Rights in Europe (1994) - pdf

The European Consultation on the Rights of Patients, held in Amsterdam on 28-30 March 1994 under the auspices of the WHO Regional Office for…

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Advancing Safe Motherhood through Human Rights

This report considers how human rights laws can be applied to relieve the estimated 1,400 deaths world-wide that occur every day, an annual mortality…

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Implementation of the Law on Psychiatric Care report

On June 21, 2006 the Mental Health Foundation launched its Implementation of the Law on Psychiatric Care report. More than 80 people representing governmental…

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Statistical Yearbook of Armenia, 2007: Public Health

The section encloses key public health indicators for Republic of Armenia.

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WHO Model Lists of Essential Medicines

The WHO Model Lists of Essential Medicines has been updated every two years since 1977. The current version, the 15th list, dates from March…

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Latest news

UNAIDS: Funding cuts could lead…

09.03.10 - JOHANNESBURG -Cuts in donor funding could cause an HIV “nightmare,” the United Nations’ AIDS agency chief warned Monday.

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Training on “Human Rights of…

On March 02, 2010, NGO “Antidrugs Civil Union” conducted a training on “Human Rights of Drug-Addicted People” for general practitioners of the Narcological Centre of Psychiatric Medical Centre CJSC of the…

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Upcoming Events

July 18-23, 2003

The International AIDS Conference 2010

The International AIDS Conference is the premier gathering for those working in the field of HIV, as well as policy makers, persons living with HIV and other individuals committed to ending the pandemic.

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April 26-28, 2010

Palliative Medicine Curriculum

The Initiative group of Palliative Medicine/Care are pleased to invite you to apply to participate in seminar on the Palliative Medicine Curriculum, to be held in April from 26th-28th, 2010 at Conference hall of “Muratsan”…

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8 December 2009

“HIV/AIDS actual issues” international conference

The International Conference on “HIV/AIDS actual issues” dedicated to the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the National Center for AIDS Prevention of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Armenia.…

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Health and Law Resources
 

Laws and Health


Additional Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine, on the Prohibition of Cloning Human Beings was signed…

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Medical ethics is primarily a field of applied ethics, the study of moral values and judgments as they apply to medicine. As a scholarly discipline, medical ethics encompasses its practical application in clinical settings as…

Health Care


February 25, 2010 - Prosecutors are seeking documents from Anthem, Aetna, Cigna, Blue Shield, Kaiser, Health Net and PacifiCare in a probe of whether they raised rates illegally and denied payment of legitimate claims.

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