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Thanks to activists in South Africa, the right to health as a human right has returned to the international stage, just as it was being displaced by economists who see health through the prism of a globalized economy and by politicians who see it as an issue of national security or charity. The current post-apartheid debate in South Africa is not about race but about health, and in this context, the court victory by AIDS activists in the nevirapine case has been termed not only, as stated in one British newspaper, "the greatest defeat for [President Thabo] Mbeki's government" but . . . [Full Text of this Article]

HIV Infection and the Right to Health

Making Nevirapine Available

Enforcing the Obligation to Respect Rights

Enforcing the Obligation to Protect Rights

The Rights of Children and the Obligation to Fulfill Rights

The Right to the Progressive Realization of Health

Implementing the Right to Health

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From the Health Law Department, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston.

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The Right to Health and the Nevirapine Case in South Africa
Jackson K. E., Jackson W. L. Jr., Lamm R. D., Annas G. J.
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N Engl J Med 2003; 348:2470-2471, Jun 12, 2003. Correspondence

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