Human Rights Watch researcher Katherine Todrys guest blogs for Global Pulse on the HIV/AIDS fight in Uganda, where only one of 223 prisons has a medical facility equipped to provide adequate treatment for the disease.
Lawrence O. Gostin, Faculty Director of the O’Neill Institute at Georgetown University Law Center, proposes an international call to action through the adoption of a Global Plan for Justice (GPJ), a voluntary compact among states and their partners in business, philanthropy, and civil society to redress health inequalities.
Two new studies suggest promising methods of detecting and treating TB despite discouraging reports about the increasing global prevalence of …Continue Reading
The non-profit organization, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), published a report in January of 2009 on the cholera outbreak and …Continue Reading