Public Health and Human Rights - Evidence Based Approaches

Foreword, by Leonard S. Rubenstein xi Preface xv Contributors xxi List of Acronyms xxxi Introduction. Human Rights and the Health of Populations 1 Chris Beyrer I. Cases and Contexts 1. Health and Human Rights in the Midst of a Drug War: The Thai Drug Users' Network 11 Thomas Kerr, Karyn Kaplan, Paisan Suwannawong, and Evan Wood 2. The Impact of Human Rights Violations on Health among Internally Displaced Persons in Conflict Zones: Burma 33 Thomas J. Lee, Luke C. Mullany, Adam K. Richards, Cynthia Maung, Htee Moo, and Mahn Mahn 3. Consequences of a Stalled Response: Iatrogenic Epidemic among Blood Donors in Central China 65 Wan Yanhai and Li Xiaorong 4. Women's Health and Women's Rights: Selling Sex in Moscow 88 Julie Stachowiak and Alena Peryshkina 5. Reducing Harm in Prisons: Lessons from the United States and Worldwide 105 Julie Samia Mair II. Methods 6. Using Molecular Tools to Track Epidemics and Investigate Human Rights and Disease Interactions 127 Chris Beyrer 7. Documenting the Effects of Trafficking in Women 143 Cathy Zimmerman and Charlotte Watts 8. Documenting Sexual Violence among Internally Displaced Women: Sierra Leone 177 Chen Reis 9. The Crime of Genocide: Darfur 202 Jennifer Leaning 10. Public Health Research in a Human Rights Crisis: The Effects of the Thai "War on Drugs" 222 Susan Sherman, Apinun Aramrattana, and David Celentano 11. Maps in the Sand: Investigating Health and Human Rights in Afghanistan and Darfur 243 Lynn Lawry 12. Civil Conflict and Health Information: The Democratic Republic of Congo 268 Chris Beyrer, Arpi Terzian, Sara Lowther, John A. Zambrano, Noya Galai, and Mwandagalirwa Kashamuka Melchior III. Policy 13. From Human Rights Principles to Public Health Practice: HIV/AIDS Policy in Brazil 289 Varun Gauri, Chris Beyrer, and Denise Vaillancourt 14. Seeing Double: Mapping Contradictions in HIV Prevention and Illicit Drug Policy Worldwide 330 Daniel Wolfe and Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch 15. Human Rights and Public Health Ethics: Responding to the Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic 362 Jonathan Cohen, Nancy Kass, and Chris Beyrer 16. Gender and Sexual Health Rights: Burma 391 Voravit Suwanvanichkij, Heather Kuiper, Alice Khin, Terrence Smith, and Cynthia Maung 17. Advocacy Strategies for Affording the Right to Health 419 Holly Burkhalter Index 437