Defending the Right to Health: A Summer at Human Rights Watch Angelina Caruso Health Grand Challenges Initiative The Future of Global AIDS Treatment &

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Defending the Right to Health: A Summer at Human Rights Watch Angelina Caruso Health Grand Challenges Initiative The Future of Global AIDS Treatment & The Social Determinants of Health Coordinated by Prof. João Biehl

What is HRW?

Some Impacts from 2010 United States HIV Ban Cambodian drug detention centers Segregation of HIV + prisoners in Mississippi Corporal punishment in Zambian prisons

The Right to Health “The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.” -International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) – Article 12

Minimum Requirements Ensure access to and equitable distribution of health facilitates, goods and services on a non-discriminatory basis Provide essential drugs, (defined under WHO Action Programme on Essential Drugs) Adopt and implement a national public health strategy and plan of action. -ICESCR General Comment No. 14: The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health

International AIDS Conference 2010

Long Term Project: Transgender Health and Legal Rights

Terms Transgender Transsexual Gender Identity Disorder (GIS) Gender (or Sex) Reassignment Surgery

Legal Status in Europe European Union report findings Variations across the continent

Transgender Rights in the Netherlands Problematic law Signs of progress

Health and Human Rights: Solidifying the Connection

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