<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>><br>crossposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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<h1 style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="#993300" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #993300; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Using human rights to improve maternal and neonatal health:<br> history, connections and a proposed practical approach<br>
<br></span></font></b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sofia Gruskin ^a, Jane Cottingham ^b, Adriane Martin Hilber ^c, Eszter Kismodi ^b, Ornella Lincetto ^b, Mindy Jane Roseman ^d<br></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">a Program on International Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA, USA<br>
b World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.</span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">c University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland.<br>
d Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA.<br></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bulletin of the World Health Organization Volume 86, Number 8, August 2008, 577-656</span></font></h1>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Available online at: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/8/07-050500.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/8/07-050500.pdf</span></font></a> </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">"……We describe the historical development of how maternal and neonatal mortality in the developing world came to be seen as a public-health concern, a human rights concern, and ultimately as both, leading to the development of approaches using human rights concepts and methods to advance maternal and neonatal health. We describe the different contributions of the international community, women's health advocates and human rights activists. </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We briefly present a recent effort, developed by WHO with the Harvard Program on International Health and Human Rights, that applies a human rights framework to reinforce current efforts to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality….."</span></font></p>

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<h3 style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="4"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: maroon">WHO 60th anniversary commemorative volume</span></font></b><font color="maroon" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase; COLOR: maroon"></span></font></h3>

<h1 style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bulletin of the World Health Organization Volume 86, Number 8, August 2008<br><br>
</span></font></b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Website: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/8/08-000808/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/8/08-000808/en/index.html</span></font></a></span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></h1>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This month's special theme is ethics and public health. In the first editorial, Carl H Coleman et al. (578) discuss the key issues in public-health ethics and how WHO incorporates ethics into its mission. In the second, John Krebs (579) presents the ethical dilemma involved in balancing individual rights with government intervention. In the third, Cristina P Pinheiro (580) questions the ethics of drug donations and proposes alternative aid solutions.</span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">In an interview, Mary Robinson (587–588), former President of Ireland and ex-United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, talks about the need for a more ethical approach to health policy worldwide. To complement the theme of this month's issue, John R Williams (650–652) looks at the Declaration of Helsinki – a set of principles guiding medical and scientific research – and how it has evolved over time.</span></font></p>

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- Sofia Gruskin et al.<br>doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.050500<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/07-050500-ab/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Abstract [HTML]</span></font></a> | <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/07-050500/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [HTML]</span></font></a> | <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/07-050500.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [pdf 391kb]</span></font></a> <br clear="all">
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doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.042820<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/07-042820-ab/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Abstract [HTML]</span></font></a> | <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/07-042820/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [HTML]</span></font></a> | <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/07-042820.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [pdf 479kb]</span></font></a> <br clear="all">
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doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.050880<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/08-050880-ab/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Abstract [HTML]</span></font></a> | <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/08-050880/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [HTML]</span></font></a> | <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/08-050880.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [pdf 508kb]</span></font></a> <br clear="all">
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- Adnan A Hyder et al.<br>doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051110<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/08-051110-ab/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Abstract [HTML]</span></font></a> | <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/08-051110/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [HTML]</span></font></a> | <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/08-051110.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [pdf 460kb]</span></font></a> <br clear="all">
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doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051037<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/08-051037-ab/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Abstract [HTML]</span></font></a> | <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/08-051037/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [HTML]</span></font></a> | <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/08-051037.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [pdf 362kb]</span></font></a> <br clear="all">
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doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051078<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/08-051078-ab/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Abstract [HTML]</span></font></a> | <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/08-051078/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [HTML]</span></font></a> | <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/08-051078.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [pdf 494kb]</span></font></a> <br clear="all">
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doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051193<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/08-051193-ab/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Abstract [HTML]</span></font></a> | <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/08-051193/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [HTML]</span></font></a> | <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/08-051193.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [pdf 385kb]</span></font></a> <br clear="all">
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- Farzaneh Zahedi & Bagher Larijani<br>doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.050724<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/08-050724-ab/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Abstract [HTML]</span></font></a> | <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/08-050724/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [HTML]</span></font></a> | <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/08-050724.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [pdf 391kb]</span></font></a> <br clear="all">
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- Manuela Colombini et al.<br>doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.045906<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/07-045906-ab/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Abstract [HTML]</span></font></a> | <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/07-045906/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [HTML]</span></font></a> | <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/07-045906.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [pdf 644kb]</span></font></a> <br clear="all">
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doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051771<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/08-051771/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [HTML]</span></font></a> | <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/08-051771.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [pdf 180kb]</span></font></a> <br clear="all">
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doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048710<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/07-048710/en/index.html" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [HTML]</span></font></a> | <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/volumes/86/8/07-048710.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Full article text [pdf 155kb]</span></font></a> <br clear="all">
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