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Editorial
"Equipping Practitioners": Linking Neglected Tropical Diseases and Human Rights
Health and human rights, v 20(1), pp 5-10
01 Jun 2018
PMID: 30008548
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Abstract
In 2007, Paul Hunt, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health, and colleagues published a report entitled Neglected Diseases: A Human Rights Analysis. In introducing the report, the authors wrote:
The human rights implications of neglected diseases, and the contribution that human rights can make to addressing neglected diseases, have not been given the attention they deserve. This report aims to equip practitioners with an understanding of human rights, how human rights abuses cause and result from neglected diseases, and how a human rights approach can contribute to the fight against neglected diseases.[1]
More than a decade later, the human rights implications of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are still only infrequently addressed, and there remains a need to “equip practitioners”—in both the NTD and the human rights fields—and to ensure that rights-based principles and approaches are examined and integrated into NTD programs. Seeking to expand this attention, the call for articles for this special issue of Health and Human Rights Journal asked NTD scholars and practitioners to share examples of how rights interact with NTDs and how current NTD programs respect, protect, and promote human rights. [1st 3 paragraphs]
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- Title
- "Equipping Practitioners": Linking Neglected Tropical Diseases and Human Rights
- Creators
- Joseph J. Amon - Helen Keller Int, Neglected Trop Dis, New York, NY 10017 USADavid G. Addiss - The Task Force for Global Health
- Publication Details
- Health and human rights, v 20(1), pp 5-10
- Publisher
- Harvard Univ Press
- Number of pages
- 6
- Resource Type
- Editorial
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Community Health and Prevention
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000438272200002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85056776172
- Other Identifier
- 991021895792404721
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