PHM-Exch> Health and Human Rights - An International Journal - Issue on Participation

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) <ruglucia at paho.org>
crossposted from: EQUIDAD at listserv.paho.org


 *Table of Contents, Vol 11, No 1 (2009), Health and Human Rights

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Website: http://hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr

 Front Matter

*On Participation*

*Health and Human Rights: An International Journal *

*PDF <http://hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/124/212> *

Introduction

*The power of community in advancing the right to health*
A conversation with Anand Grover

*Abstract <http://hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/125> [image:
file]HTML <http://hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/125/197> [image:
file]PDF <http://hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/125/198>

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“…..The community is the most effective tool that we have: an organic tool,
not a tool in the abstract or purely instrumental sense, but a living,
organic tool which can see to it that the right to health is actually
delivered. You just have to compare the efficiencies of the Global Fund, in
terms of actual delivery, to the traditional systems of financing, and you
see a vast difference. This suggests how we have to shift the paradigm
across the sectors, not only in HIV. And HIV activists are very clear that
health systems must respond to the needs of all people who suffer
disadvantage in health — whether it’s because of poverty, as Paul Farmer has
discussed, or because of other forms of discrimination and marginalization,
for example the discrimination that affects indigenous peoples or other
ethnic minorities. Now we must deliver, and those communities must be part
of the process of decision-making, implementation, monitoring, and
accountability. That’s what HIV has shown as a living reality, and that’s
what we want to translate into other areas of health. ..”



‘…HHR: Why might the mandate of the Special Rapporteur be especially
important right now?



AG: The economic crisis shows the importance of systematic action to protect
rights, including the right to health, especially for poor and marginalized
groups. In the 1990s, we had economic liberalization, which usually meant
only privatization. The poor were pushed into deeper poverty, while the rich
became richer. In this context, it’s all the more important to insist that
the right to health is universal. But this isn’t just a philosophical
principle. It’s about budgeting. As I said, we can’t ignore budgeting
anymore. And budgeting doesn’t mean that governments in low-income countries
must pay for everything from their own resources. The right to the highest
attainable standard of health, and the responsibility to protect the right,
have to be seen in international terms. This means you look at international
systems of financing. If a country’s resources aren’t adequate, then money
has to come from abroad, also. That financing commitment has to be part of
the international rights agenda….”



*Critical Concepts*

*Suffering and powerlessness: The significance of promoting participation in
rights-based approaches to health*

*Alicia Ely Yamin *

[image: file]Abstract
<http://hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/127> [image:
file]HTML <http://hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/127/200> [image:
file]PDF <http://hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/127/199>



*Health through people’s empowerment: A rights-based approach to
participation*

*Pol De Vos, Wim De Ceukelaire, Geraldine Malaise, Dennis Pérez, Pierre
Lefèvre, Patrick Van der Stuyft *

[image: file]Abstract
<http://hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/126> [image:
file]HTML <http://hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/126/201> [image:
file]PDF <http://hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/126/202>



*Social participation within a context of political violence: Implications
for the promotion and exercise of the right to health in Guatemala*

*Walter Flores, Ana Lorena Ruano, Denise Phé Funchal *

[image: file]Abstract
<http://hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/128> [image:
file]HTML <http://hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/128/204> [image:
file]PDF <http://hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/128/203>



*Participation and the right to health: Lessons from Indonesia*

*Sam Foster Halabi *

[image: file]Abstract
<http://hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/129> [image:
file]HTML <http://hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/129/205> [image:
file]PDF <http://hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/article/view/129/206>
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