This Resource Manual for NGOs on the Right to Health was commissioned from the Commonwealth Medical Trust (Commat) by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Huridocs in 1999.
Since that time a number of consultations and workshops have been held to assist with its preparation. In addition, some important developments have taken place in the interpretation of the relevant legally binding international human rights treaties, most importantly the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’ adoption of a general comment on the right to health in 2000.
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This briefing aims to provide a very short, concise and accessible introduction to the right to the highest attainable standard of health.
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The British Medical Association, IFHHRO and the Commonwealth Medical Trust (COMMAT) recently launched the new resource The right to health: a toolkit for health professionals. COMMAT is an IFHHRO member and BMA an observer. The Right to Health Toolkit is designed to provide practical, realistic guidance for health professionals on the meaning and implications of the right to health. It is aimed at an international audience of health care workers and is designed to be rooted in everyday practice. IFHHRO headquarters was involved in the development of the resource.
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16 December 2009 - This report is a comprehensive assessment of leading risks to global health. It provides detailed global and regional estimates of premature mortality, disability and loss of health attributable to 24 global risk factors. The report provides an update for the year 2004.
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This newsletter will update you on both issues of drug control as well as access to controlled medicines, especially if the World Health Organization is involved. Generally speaking, these issues will be any matter related to the evaluation of substances within the framework of the UN drug conventions, especially the 1961 and 1971 Conventions, and any matter related to WHO’s Access to Controlled Medications Programme (ACMP) The newsletter will be published at irregular intervals, but certainly not more than once a month.
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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 concepts and resources in health and human rights and contains seven chapters, each on a different health issue of priority concern to the Open Society Institute (OSI) and Soros Foundations Network (SFN), and one appendix.
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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, 2009.
Click here for the online version of Realizing the Right to Health.
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 effective national HIV/AIDS policies and strategies. The Guidelines were drafted by experts at an international consultation in 1996 and provide the framework for a rights-based response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic by outlining how human rights standards apply in the context of HIV/AIDS and translating them into practical measures that should be undertaken at the national level. A consolidated version of the Guidelines was launched in August 2006 to coincide with the XVIth International AIDS Conference and the tenth anniversary of the Guidelines themselves.
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This fact sheet, produced by the OSI International Harm Reduction Development Program, demonstrates how such police practices help fuel HIV epidemics by driving drug users away from lifesaving care while doing little to stem drug use. However, emerging partnerships between police and health providers prove that law enforcement and HIV prevention programs can work together to save lives while reducing crime.
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This book examines the descent of the global war on drugs into a war on people who use drugs. From Puerto Rico to Phnom Penh, Manipur to Moscow, the scars of this war are carried on the bodies and minds of drug users, their families, and the health and service providers who work with them.
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The Global Fund recently published its 2008 progress report, entitled Scaling Up For Impact: Results Report, otherwise known as “the Green Report”, and the 2008 Annual Report. These reports are full of highly relevant information about the Global Fund’s programs, data and results.
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The recent outbreaks of disease in people globally are caused by a new influenza (or “flu”) type A (H1N1) virus. There is a human H1N1 virus circulating and causing seasonal influenza and in the past, very occasionally, H1N1 viruses from swine have infected humans.
Promoting and protecting health and respecting, protecting and fulfilling human rights are inextricably linked.
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The Universal Human Rights Index is a new research tool in the field of international human rights, aimed to facilitate students’ and academic staff’s researches in that field.
This report is a brief summary of results of the first HSPA exercise in Armenia. It gives key illustrative examples of how HSPA indicators can describe possible links between system strategies and performance of the Armenian health system.
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