FXB Symposium in New York Highlights Intersection of Health and Human Rights
The
denial of human rights has enabled the AIDS pandemic, as well as diseases
such as tuberculosis, to spread because it takes away necessities such
as food, housing, and health services, said panelists at the Health
and Human Rights in Times of Peace and Conflict symposium on April
12 at the Harvard Club in New York City. The symposium was sponsored by
the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights.
Dean Barry Bloom; Stephen Marks, director of the center; Jennifer Leaning,
director, Program on Humanitarian Crises at FXB and professor of international
health, Department of Population and International Health; and Sofia Gruskin,
director, Program on International Health and Human Rights at FXB and
faculty lecturer, Department of Population and International Health, participated.
