Do human rights matter to health?
Legal instruments and litigation as a way to enforce the rights to life and to health is a relatively new strategy that is increasingly common. We show how legal measures have been used to attain health and human rights with case examples from India and South Africa that resulted in large public-health benefits.
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Jerome Amir
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Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, Durban, South Africa.
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Michelle
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Mills
Edward J
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