Health

US Senate: Reject Abortion Coverage Restrictions

Human Rights Watch — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:03:58 -0800

Letter to US Senate: Reject Abortion Coverage Restrictions

Human Rights Watch — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:57:47 -0800

Dear Senator,

Within but Without

Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys and Joseph J. Amon — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:28:13 -0800

Abstract

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Progress Against HIV at Risk

Joseph Amon — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:00:38 -0800

Cambodia is considered one of the few success stories in the global fight against AIDS. HIV is on the decline: More than 2 percent of adults were affected in 1997; a decade later, HIV prevalence is 0.8 percent.

According to UNAIDS, "Cambodia provides evidence that well-focused and sustained prevention efforts can help reverse an HIV epidemic."

Uganda: Bill Threatens Progress on HIV/AIDS

Human Rights Watch — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:57:56 -0800

(Kampala) - A proposed Ugandan law on HIV/AIDS promotes dangerous and discredited approaches to the AIDS epidemic and would violate human rights, a group of more than 50 Ugandan and international organizations and individuals said in a report released today. The HIV and AIDS Prevention and Control Bill could be taken up by Uganda's parliament shortly.

Comments to Uganda’s Parliamentary Committee on HIV/AIDS and Related Matters about the HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Bill

Human Rights Watch — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:51:08 -0800

Summary
1. HIV Testing
Insufficient Protections Relating to Testing of Children
2. Mandatory Notification and Disclosure
3. Criminalization of Transmission

US: Obama Announces End to HIV Travel Ban

Human Rights Watch — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:59:11 -0700

President Barack Obama's announcement today that national travel and immigration restrictions on people living with HIV will be removed should have positive consequences for public health and other countries with similar restrictions should follow suit, Human Rights Watch said.

Unbearable Pain

Human Rights Watch — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:50:00 -0700

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Unbearable Pain

India’s Obligation to Ensure Palliative Care

Map 1: States in which Human Rights Watch conducted field research on palliative

Unbearable Pain

Human Rights Watch — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:50:00 -0700

This 102-page report found that many major cancer hospitals in India do not provide patients with morphine, despite the fact that more than 70 percent of their patients are incurable and likely to require pain treatment and palliative care. Health centers offering services to people living with HIV similarly do not have morphine or doctors trained to prescribe it.

Right to Relief: Palliative Care in India

Human Rights Watch — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:29:59 -0700

Doctors in India say it’s time for the Indian government to integrate palliative care into routine health care. Photography and video by Brent Foster for Human Rights Watch.