Public Health and Human Rights: Evidence-Based Approaches »

Chris Beyrer, M.D., M.P.H., is a professor of epidemiology and international health, director of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights, and associate director of the Center for Global Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. H. F. Pizer is the cofounder and principal of Health Care Strategies, Inc., and author, coauthor, or editor of thirteen medical books.

Human rights violations are underlying causes of adverse health outcomes for vulnerable people and populations around the world. Public Health and Human Rights provides critical, evidence-based assessments and tools with which to investigate the role of rights abrogation in the health of populations — from repressive laws to social discord, gender-based violence, human trafficking, and violations in conflict.

Divided into three sections, this provocative work investigates how the complex interactions between rights and health can best be studied, analyzed, and remedied; how the efforts of human rights advocates affect health outcomes; and how modern public health procedures can assist in documenting, understanding, and preventing human rights violations. Part I illuminates the powerful relationship between rights work and public health practice in Thailand, Russia, Burma, and China and in U.S. prisons. Part II explores new methodologies and new uses of previous practices for rights-based public health research. Part III confronts current policy approaches — such as Brazil's integration of rights, HIV/AIDS programming, and the contradictory and confounding global policies on illicit drugs — and offers recommendations for future programs and strategies.

Foreword   Leonard S. Rubenstein     xi
Preface     xv
Contributors     xxi
List of Acronyms     xxxi
Introduction. Human Rights and the Health of Populations   Chris Beyrer     1
Cases and Contexts
Health and Human Rights in the Midst of a Drug War: The Thai Drug Users' Network   Thomas Kerr   Karyn Kaplan   Paisan Suwannawong   Evan Wood     11
The Impact of Human Rights Violations on Health among Internally Displaced Persons in Conflict Zones: Burma   Thomas J. Lee   Luke C. Mullany   Adam K. Richards   Cynthia Maung   Htee Moo   Mahn Mahn     33
Consequences of a Stalled Response: Iatrogenic Epidemic among Blood Donors in Central China   Wan Yanhai   Li Xiaorong     65
Women's Health and Women's Rights: Selling Sex in Moscow   Julie Stachowiak   Alena Peryshkina     88
Reducing Harm in Prisons: Lessons from the United States and Worldwide   Julie Samia Mair     105
Methods
Using Molecular Tools to Track Epidemics and Investigate Human Rights and Disease Interactions   Chris Beyrer     127
Documenting the Effects of Trafficking in Women   Cathy Zimmerman   Charlotte Watts     143
Documenting Sexual Violence among Internally Displaced Women: Sierra Leone   Chen Reis     177
The Crime of Genocide: Darfur   Jennifer Leaning     202
Public Health Research in a Human Rights Crisis: The Effects of the Thai "War on Drugs"   Susan Sherman   Apinun Aramrattana   David Celentano     222
Maps in the Sand: Investigating Health and Human Rights in Afghanistan and Darfur   Lynn Lawry     243
Civil Conflict and Health Information: The Democratic Republic of Congo   Chris Beyrer   Arpi Terzian   Sara Lowther   John A. Zambrano   Noya Galai   Mwandagalirwa Kashamuka Melchior     268
Policy
From Human Rights Principles to Public Health Practice: HIV/AIDS Policy in Brazil   Varun Gauri   Chris Beyrer   Denise Vaillancourt     289
Seeing Double: Mapping Contradictions in HIV Prevention and Illicit Drug Policy Worldwide   Daniel Wolfe   Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch     330
Human Rights and Public Health Ethics: Responding to the Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic   Jonathan Cohen   Nancy Kass   Chris Beyrer     362
Gender and Sexual Health Rights: Burma   Voravit Suwanvanichkij   Heather Kuiper   Alice Khin    Terrence Smith   Cynthia Maung     391
Advocacy Strategies for Affording the Right to Health   Holly Burkhalter     419
Index     437