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Achieving the MDGs by Investing in Human Resources for Health
The Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative has consolidated evidence on the connections between scaling up the health workforce and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and proposed specific commitments that leaders should incorporate into the MDG action agenda on the health workforce and on developing equitable, accountable health systems...
May 20, 2010 -
Toxic Metals and Indigenous Peoples Near the Marlin Mine in Western Guatemala
Environmental health scientists from the University of Michigan find that a sample of Guatemalans who live near a controversial gold and silver mine in the country’s western highlands have higher levels of potentially toxic heavy metals in their urine and blood than a sample of residents who live farther from the mine....
May 18, 2010 -
Hospital Staff Upholds International Medical Ethics During Unrest in Bangkok
Two PHR researchers report from Thailand that actions by anti-government protesters who first blockaded and later forcibly entered and searched a major hospital in central Bangkok last month were a gross violation of humanitarian principles....
May 3, 2010 -
Grading the Benchmarks
Now, almost six months after the policy review, an honest accounting of the "benchmarks" for progress in Sudan suggests how much important work remains to be done if broader conflict is to be avoided.
April 29, 2010 -
Action Agenda
This 9-page white paper, published March 17, 2010, on the eve of the US Special Envoy to Sudan’s first twelve months in office, urges the US Envoy to address the urgent need of women and girls in Darfur through diplomatic efforts and the resources appropriated to the office for urgent peace and security interventions.
March 19, 2010 -
Stateless and Starving
In recent months Bangladeshi authorities have waged an unprecedented campaign of arbitrary arrest, illegal expulsion, and forced internment against Burmese refugees. In its latest emergency report, "Stateless and Starving", PHR presents new data and documents dire conditions for these persecuted Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
March 8, 2010 -
Incorporating the Right to Health into Health Workforce Plans
In a concise format that should be attractive to policymakers and advocates alike, this document offers guidance on how to ensure that human rights, and in particular the right to health, inform the process of developing, funding, and monitoring health workforce plans, and the content of those plans. Such an approach is an obligation of countries and recognized good practice...
December 4, 2009 -
Stigma, Discrimination, and PEPFAR Partnership Framework Agreements: An Analysis of Selected Issues in Five Agreements
PHR has analyzed how four final and one draft PEPFAR partnership framework agreement have addressed several issues related to stigma and discrimination: legal and regulatory reform, stigma and discrimination in the health sector, and recognition of the need to address stigma and discrimination against people with disabilities. Partnership framework agreements set out the strategic framework for how the United States and partner countries will cooperate in combating AIDS over the next five years, and will be followed by more detailed implementation plans...
December 4, 2009
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