Health and Human Rights Syllabi Database
The database provides an up to date listing of syllabi from institutions and organizations providing health and human rights education in academic settings.
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The Program on International Health and Human Rights promotes practical and effective responses to global public health challenges through the innovative application of human rights. This is done through a combination of research, capacity building, policy development and health programming in a variety of areas focusing on HIV/AIDS, reproductive and sexual health, and child and adolescent health.
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PIHHR Project Manager, Dina Bogecho, presents to UNFPA staff from across Africa during the pilot testing and training of trainers for, "Human Rights- Based Approaches to Programming: A Practical Implementation Manual." The workshop was held in Akosombo, Ghana in November 2007 and was co-hosted by PIHHR, the Culture, Gender and Human Rights Branch of the UNFPA Technical Support Division (CGHRB), and the pan-African network -Women in Law and Development, Africa (WiLDAF)
Check Us Out in Mexico City!
The Program on International Health and Human Rights is actively involved with the upcoming XVII International AIDS Conference. This year's conference will be held in Mexico City, Mexico from 3-8 August 2008.
To find out more about our oral and poster abstract presentations and where you can find us during the conference, click here.
Presentation by PIHHR Director Sofia Gruskin and PIHHR Research Manager Laura Ferguson
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The Global Response to HIV: Trends in Attention to Human Rights"
PIHHR Staff conduct NCPI country case study in Brazil As part of the debriefing process on the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV and AIDS (UNGASS) 2008 reporting round, PIHHR is carrying out three country case studies focusing on the National Composite Policy Index (NCPI) element of the UNGASS report. In April 2008, Sofia Gruskin and Laura Ferguson travelled to Brazil to conduct the research for the first case study. They reviewed relevant documents and interviewed over government, NGO and international agencies involved in Brazil’s 2008 reporting process. The case study captures some of the benefits and challenges of NCPI reporting and responding to HIV in the Brazilian context and aims to inform specific recommendations on improving reporting guidance for the next UNGASS round in 2010.
Field test of the Child Rights Checklist for the Development of CAH Tools and Documents
In February 2008, PIHHR Program Manager Zyde Raad conducted a field test of the Child Rights Checklist for the Development of CAH Tools and Documents as part of an evaluation of the national child health program in Georgetown, Guyana, in conjunction with WHO/CAH, Pan American Health Organization, and Guyana Minstry of Health. This checklist tool designed by PIHHR is to be used by WHO staff or consultants to systematically and practically integrate relevant Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) norms and standards as they draft and revise their own tools, guidelines, and other documents. The field test validated the added value of the checklist tool in terms of guiding the systematic consideration of the following issues when conducting child health program reviews in countries: participation of key actors and dissemination of review findings to relevant stakeholders; budgeting and costing for child health; programming for vulnerable sub-groups of children; vital registration systems; and the legal and policy environment more generally. To read the report, click here.
