CONTENTS

Introduction: The Human Right to Health Dilemma

Chapter 1: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Background

Declarations, Covenants, and Constitutions

Progressive Realization and Core Obligations

Chapter 2: The Human Right to Health and Its Critics

Rights, Humanitarianism, and Power

Rights and Human Rights

Philosophical Challenges

General Comment 14

The Human Right to Health in Practice

Chapter 3: HIV/AIDS and the Human Right to Health

The Awakening of the Human Right to Health

HIV/AIDS Discovery and Response

Access to Treatment

HIV/AIDS and Haitians in the United States

The Global Spread of HIV/AIDS: Africa

The Hidden Cost of Treating HIV/AIDS

Conclusion

Chapter 4: Problems and Prospects

The World Bank and Health Systems

TRIPS and the Price of Medicines

The Health Brain Drain

Research Ethics

Maternal Mortality and Newborn Survival

Conclusion

Chapter 5: Where Next?

Emerging Campaigns

Governance and Activism

Conclusion

Notes

Further Reading

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index