Health

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

India: Reveal Truth about Childbirth Deaths

Human Rights Watch — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:55:00 -0800

(New York) - India is falling behind other countries in meeting international commitments to improve obstetric care because it does not adequately monitor deaths and injuries in the critical period following childbirth and fix gaps in its health system and programs, Human Rights Watch said today.

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.

Doing Some Good vs. Doing Right

Liesl Gerntholtz — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:33:37 -0700

I gave birth in the developing world, in South Africa, to be precise. South Africa was in the spotlight recently when a government-commissioned report showed a 20 per cent increase in the number of deaths from pregnancy-related causes between 2005 and 2007 over the previous three-year period. The report said that nearly 40 per cent of these deaths were avoidable.

Limitations on Human Rights in the Context of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

Joseph J. Amon, Françoise Girard, and Salmaan Keshavjee — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:38:36 -0700

India: Maternal Mortality and Morbidity

Human Rights Watch — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:27:44 -0700

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No Tally of the Anguish

Human Rights Watch — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:57:00 -0700

This 150-page report documents repeated failures both in providing health care to pregnant women in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India and in taking steps to identify and address gaps in care.