Human rights group accuses Russian government of hampering efforts to tackle HIV/AIDS

Are intellectual property rights hampering cancer research?

Mobile phones connecting efforts to tackle infectious disease.

274 www.thelancet.com/infection Vol 9 May 2009 With 2·2 billion mobile phones in developing countries, mobile technology can be used to detect and respond to disease outbreaks and improve public health and health care. Now, the mobile health (mHealth) Alliance—a partner ship between the Rockefeller Foundation, the UN Foundation, and the Vodafone Foundation—is beginning to connect individuals, p...

Fitness gains hamper efforts to tackle drug resistance

It has long been assumed that resistance to antibiotics reduces the fitness of disease-causing bacteria, but experiments on Salmonella Typhi, the bacteria that causes Typhoid fever, are now challenging this view.

"Human Rights"؛ "Citizen Rights"؛ "Human Rights Declaration"؛ " Middle Eastern States"

حقوق بشر و حقوق شهروندی از حقوق ذاتی و طبیعی انسان نشأت گرفته و در طول تاریخ بین اندیشمندان مناطق مختلف جهان و همچنین در مکاتب الهی توجه خاصی به آنها شده است. اما متاسفانه تا پایان جنگ جهانی دوم حقوق بشر بصورت گسترده اقبالی کسب ننمود. اگر چه با اعلامیه جهانی حقوق بشر سال 1948 و دیگر کنوانسیون های مربوطه، حقوق بشر شکل جهان شمولی بخود گرفته ولی هنوز بسیاری از دولتهای خاورمیانه حاضر به پذیرش تمامی...

Using indicators to determine the contribution of human rights to public health efforts.

There is general agreement on the need to integrate human rights into health policies and programmes, although there is still reluctance to go beyond rhetorical acknowledgement of their assumed significance. To determine the actual value of human rights for the effectiveness of public health efforts requires clarity about what their incorporation looks like in practice and how to assess their c...