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Health and Human Rights Journal Blog
6d ago
Dana Repka The United Nations Human Rights Council’s Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls has released a guiding document on key considerations for conscientious objection to abortion, explicitly recommending that States prohibit ..read more
Health and Human Rights Journal Blog
3w ago
Benjamin Mason Meier, Neha Saggi, and Padmini Murthy The 2024 US election campaign offered divergent approaches to US leadership in global health, with former President Trump campaigning on a platform that would undermine human rights, reject public ..read more
Health and Human Rights Journal Blog
3w ago
The ECtHR has upheld France's law criminalizing the purchase of sexual services, even between consenting adults, which threatens sex workers' rights across Europe ..read more
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3w ago
In Eastern Europe and Central Asia the HIV epidemic is growing rapidly driven by injecting drug use and unprotected sex. In every other region it has slowed and mortality has decreased ..read more
Health and Human Rights Journal Blog
3w ago
Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, participated in a panel focusing on decriminalizing sex work for effective HIV response ..read more
Health and Human Rights Journal Blog
3w ago
AIDS conferences have a long history of activism and global politics. This year the US election, the need to replenish the Global Fund, and funding for other pressing global problems, feature ..read more
Health and Human Rights Journal Blog
3w ago
AIDS 2024 had a strong emphasis on HIV, human rights, and politics. Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand and Administrator of the UNDP, gave a talk: “Global Health is a Matter of Global Politics ..read more
Health and Human Rights Journal Blog
3w ago
Front-line activists described the rise since 2023 in repressive laws and policies targeting marginalized communities around the world at the 25th International AIDS Conference ..read more
Health and Human Rights Journal Blog
3w ago
An underlying theme at AIDS 2024 is attention to global targets and if the “global HIV strategy” (if there is such a singular thing) is on track or off ..read more
Health and Human Rights Journal Blog
3w ago
AIDS 2024 is open, writes our Editor in Chief Joe Amon. There is a searchable online program with 2,557 abstracts ..read more