The U.S. Congress prioritizes patent exemptions for Wall Street business methods. Why not for lifesaving medicines?
Posts Tagged “human rights”
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Posted in: Asia, Health, United States
Topics: access to medicines, Asia, Brett Davidson, Els Torreele, EU, Free Trade Agreement, harm reduction, Hepatitis C, Hillary Clinton, HIV/AIDS, human rights, Pacific rim, patents, pharmaceuticals, public health, Wall Street
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On World Hepatitis Day, civil society groups are asking the World Health Organization to help save lives by demanding less expensive hepatitis C treatment medicines.
Posted in: Asia, Europe, Health
Topics: access to medicines, Azadeh Momenghalibaf, civil society, drug users, Georgia, harm reduction, Hepatitis C, HIV/AIDS, human rights, India, Indonesia, Margaret Chan, public health, Thailand, Ukraine, Vietnam, viral hepatitis, World Health Organization, World Hepatitis Day
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Although hepatitis C is curable, most patients outside of the developed world are unable to access treatment, due largely in part to prohibitive pricing of lifesaving medicines.
Posted in: Asia, Europe, Health, United States
Topics: access to medicines, Azadeh Momenghalibaf, Brazil, drug users, Georgia, harm reduction, Hepatitis C, HIV/AIDS, human rights, India, Indonesia, public health, Russia, South Africa, Thailand, Ukraine, United States, video, World Health Organization, World Hepatitis Day
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Cambodia's new drug law has human rights groups concerned that the country's abusive practices toward drug users will intensify.
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For too long, human rights organizations have shied away from making disability rights part of their mandate. This must change.
Posted in: Africa, Asia, Europe, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Middle East, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, Council of Europe, disability rights, human rights, Interights, Ireland, Mary McAleese, Susan Treadwell, Thomas Hammarberg, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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Over the past decade, governments have increasingly turned to arbitrary detention, cruelty, and even torture in order to combat drug abuse.
Posted in: Asia, Europe, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Cambodia, Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, China, drug detention, drug policy, drug treatment, drug users, forced labor, harm reduction, HIV/AIDS, human rights, international justice, Mexico, public health, Roxanne Saucier, Russia, torture, war on drugs
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New guidelines bring us one step closer to ending the forced sterilization of women. Now governments need to put the guidelines into practice, to ensure that health care providers protect the rights of all women.
Posted in: Africa, Europe, Health, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, forced sterilization, HIV/AIDS, human rights, International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, marginalized groups, North Carolina, public health, reproductive rights, Roma, Roma health, Tamar Ezer, women
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In Thailand, the drug war has failed to stem the spread of HIV among injection drug users. New video testimony suggests harm reduction services are needed instead.
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As many as one million Ukrainians may be living with hepatitis C, yet neither testing nor treatment for the disease are widely available.
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Despite UN recognition of the importance of HIV-prevention outreach to at-risk populations, the inability to protect sex workers from HIV remains appalling.
Posted in: Africa, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Rights & Justice
Topics: Argentina, Ban Ki-moon, Ghana, Heather Doyle, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, HIV prevention, HIV/AIDS, human rights, Kenya, Macedonia, Malawi, public health, sex workers, South Africa, Uganda, UN High Level Meeting on AIDS, UNAIDS, United Nations, Zimbabwe