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. 2019 Dec 22;392(10165):2731-2735.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32997-0. Epub 2018 Dec 9.

70 years of human rights in global health: drawing on a contentious past to secure a hopeful future

Lawrence O Gostin¹, Benjamin M Meier², Rebekah Thomas³, Veronica Magar³, Tedros A Ghebreyesus⁴

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¹ O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA. Electronic address: gostin@law.georgetown.edu.
² Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
³ Gender, Equity and Human Rights team, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁴ World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

PMID: 30541664
PMCID: PMC7137746
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32997-0

70 years of human rights in global health: drawing on a contentious past to secure a hopeful future

Lawrence O Gostin et al. Lancet. 2019.

. 2019 Dec 22;392(10165):2731-2735.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32997-0. Epub 2018 Dec 9.

Authors

Lawrence O Gostin¹, Benjamin M Meier², Rebekah Thomas³, Veronica Magar³, Tedros A Ghebreyesus⁴

Affiliations

¹ O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA. Electronic address: gostin@law.georgetown.edu.
² Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
³ Gender, Equity and Human Rights team, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁴ World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

PMID: 30541664
PMCID: PMC7137746
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32997-0

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The international development of human rights for health (1948–2018)

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Eleanor Roosevelt, UN commission on Human Rights chair from 1946–52, commemorating the 1948 adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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Jonathan Mann, WHO Global Programme on AIDS Director from 1986–90, and Halfdan Mahler, WHO Director-General from 1973–88, on the first World AIDS Day, Dec 1, 1988

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The right to health.
The Lancet. The Lancet. Lancet. 2018 Dec 15;392(10164):2516. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)33141-6. Epub 2018 Dec 9. Lancet. 2018. PMID: 30541663 No abstract available.

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