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1 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

2 What is HRW?

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

4 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

5 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

6 International AIDS Conference 2010

7 Long Term Project: Transgender Health and Legal Rights

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

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

10 Transgender Rights in the Netherlands Problematic law Signs of progress

11 Health and Human Rights: Solidifying the Connection


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