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Volume 348:2470-2471 June 12, 2003 Number 24
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The Right to Health and the Nevirapine Case in South Africa

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by Annas, G. J.
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To the Editor: In his article about the right to health and the nevirapine case in South Africa, Annas (Feb. 20 issue)1 ignores the reason why governments are reasonably and prudently reluctant to establish a right to health. In the two cases described, in which the "right to health" was "guaranteed" under the South African constitution, it is evident that the law ensuring such a manufactured "right" is specious and inconsistent when applied.2 Judicial interpretations of such laws inevitably result in proclamations that a "negative obligation [be] placed upon the state . . . to desist from preventing and impairing" . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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