Health and Human Rights
  • Upcoming Event: Course on Health Rights Litigation
    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, part of the Global School on the Enforcement of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.

  • Why the Global Fund Matters
    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.

  • Book Brief: Science in the Service of Human Rights
    Richard Pierre Claude examines the complex, sometimes fraught relationship between scientific progress and political society in order to propose a guiding framework with which to examine the tensions that may arise from this dynamic.

  • The Importance of Public Financing in Achieving Universal Health Coverage
    Health economist Rob Yates writes that if governments want to accelerate progress toward universal health coverage, they should concentrate on improving public financing mechanisms.

  • Ending Violence Against Women: A Public Health Imperative
    Human Rights Watch researcher Amanda Klasing underscores the public health imperative to end violence against women, noting that there are few instances in which the health and human rights of women and girls "intersect in such an immediate way as after violence."