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Author: Lawrence Ogalthorpe Gostin Publisher: Section of International Law ISBN: Category : AIDS (Disease) Languages : en Pages : 412
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An exploration of international law and international aids. It discusses issues relating to international response, including current issues and future directions.
Author: Lawrence Ogalthorpe Gostin Publisher: Section of International Law ISBN: Category : AIDS (Disease) Languages : en Pages : 412
Book Description
An exploration of international law and international aids. It discusses issues relating to international response, including current issues and future directions.
Author: Publisher: World Bank Publications ISBN: 0821371061 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 250
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This is an invaluable resource for lawyers, policy makers, and other practitioners with an interest in countries' responses to HIV/AIDS. Legal Aspects of HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Policy and Law Reform covers 65 wide-ranging topics in a concise, accessible format, explaining how laws and regulations can either underpin or undermine public health programs and responsible personal behavior. For each topic, the Guide summarizes the key legal or policy issues, provides relevant "practice examples" (citing actual laws and regulations), and offers a selective list of references that may be consulted for more information. Laws relating to many areas of our lives - from intimate physical conduct to international travel - can contribute to stigma, discrimination, and exclusion or, contrariwise, can help remedy these inequities. In order to create a supportive legal framework for responding to HIV/AIDS, it is important that governments effectively address gaps and other problematic aspects in their legislation and regulatory systems. This book, written by a team of leading legal experts, helps them do so.
Author: Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys Publisher: Human Rights Watch ISBN: 1564324907 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 30
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This 22-page report describes how discrimination and human rights abuses faced by migrant populations result in increased vulnerability to HIV infection and barriers to care and treatment.--Publisher description.
Author: Lawrence O. Gostin Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199748829 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 238
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A penetrating analysis of the close relationship between public health and human rights, this book makes a compelling case for synergy between the two fields. Using the AIDS pandemic as a lens, the authors demonstrate that health is closely related to human dignity and individual rights--human rights cannot be deemed adequate and comprehensive without ensuring the health of individuals. In the course of their analysis, Gostin and Lazzarini tackle some of the most vexing issues of our time, including the universality of human rights and the counter-claims of cultural relativity. Taking a cue from environmental impact assessment, they propose a human rights impact assessment for examining health policies--a tool that will be invaluable for evaluating real-world public health problems. This volume examines issues--HIV testing, screening, partner notification, isolation, quarantine, and criminalization of persons with HIV/AIDS--within the framework of international human rights law. The authors evaluate the public health implications of a wide range of AIDS policies in developed as well as developing countries. The role of women in society receives special emphasis. Finally, the book presents three case histories significant in the HIV/AIDS pandemic and analyzes them from a human rights perspective. The cases include discrimination and the transmission of HIV and tuberculosis in an occupational health care setting; breast feeding in the least developed countries; and confidentiality and the right of sexual partners to know of potential exposure to HIV. Gostin and Lazzarini have written a book that will be a valuable addition to the libraries of public health practitioners, legal scholars, bioethicists, policy makers, and public rights activists.
Author: David P. Fidler Publisher: ISBN: 9781571051233 Category : Public health laws Languages : en Pages : 0
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The deadly spread of HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases -especially in Africa, where the strain on public health authorities is at breaking point - underscores the critical need for an international regime of public health law. In addition, a growing awareness of the prevalence of non-communicable diseases, such as those caused by tobacco consumption, makes the necessity even more dramatic.
Author: Richard Elliott Publisher: UNAIDS ISBN: Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 136
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Over the years people living with or affected by HIV have sometimes successfully claimed the protection of the law. In other instances courageous activists have challenged the law to embody the human rights protections they deserve. This volume presents 30 summaries of court or tribunal proceedings aimed at defending or securing the human rights of people living with or vulnerable to HIV. With an emphasis on cases from developing countries this volume examines key litigation efforts to advance a human rights-based approach to HIV on three fronts: discrimination access to treatment and prevention and care for prisoners. Understanding the ways in which litigation has been used in the struggle for human rights successfully or otherwise helps legislators jurists advocates and policy makers to understand and use the law optimally in the response to AIDS.
Author: Sharifah Sekalala Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108179401 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 327
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Various legal approaches have been taken internationally to improve global access to essential medicines for people in developing countries. This book focuses on the millions of people suffering from AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Beginning with the AIDS campaign for antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, Sharifah Sekalala argues that a soft law approach is more effective than hard law by critiquing the current TRIPS flexibilities within the World Trade Organization. She then considers how soft law has also been instrumental in the fight against malaria and tuberculosis. Using these compelling case studies, this book explores lawmaking on global health and analyses the viability of current global health financing trends within new and traditional organisations such as the United Nations, the World Health Organization, UNAIDS, UNITAID and The Global Fund. This book is essential reading for legal, development, policy and health scholars, activists and policymakers working across political economy, policy studies and global health studies.
Author: Lawrence Ogalthorpe Gostin
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Author: Sharifah Sekalala
Author: Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys
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Author: Richard Elliott
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Author: Sharifah Sekalala