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Access to health services by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons: systematic literature review
The relationship between users and health services is considered essential to strengthen the quality of care. However, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender population suffer from prejudice and discrimin... (Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights)
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - January 14, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Grayce Alencar Albuquerque, Cintia de Lima Garcia, Glauberto da Silva Quirino, Maria Juscinaide Henrique Alves, Jameson Moreira Belém, Francisco Winter dos Santos Figueiredo, Laércio da Silva Paiva, Vânia Barbosa do Nascimento, Érika da Silva Maciel, Source Type: research

Early childhood development in Rwanda: a policy analysis of the human rights legal framework
Early childhood development (ECD) is a critical period that continues to impact human health and productivity throughout the lifetime. Failing to provide policies and programs that support optimal developmenta... (Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights)
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - January 12, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Agnes Binagwaho, Kirstin W. Scott and Sardis H. Harward Source Type: research

Sponsorship in non-commercial clinical trials: definitions, challenges and the role of Good Clinical Practices guidelines
Non-commercial clinical research plays an increasingly essential role for global health. Multiple partners join in international consortia that operate under the limited timeframe of a specific funding period.... (Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights)
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - December 30, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Raffaella Ravinetto, Katelijne De Nys, Marleen Boelaert, Ermias Diro, Graeme Meintjes, Yeka Adoke, Harry Tagbor and Minne Casteels Source Type: research

Factors associated with adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) among adult people living with HIV and attending their clinical care, Eastern Ethiopia
To attain a successful treatment outcome, Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) treatment for people living with HIV requires more than 95 % adherence level. The adherence level varies depending on different population... (Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights)
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - December 28, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Shiferaw Letta, Asrat Demissie, Lemessa Oljira and Yadeta Dessie Source Type: research

Female genital mutilation and cutting: a systematic literature review of health professionals’ knowledge, attitudes and clinical practice
Health care professionals worldwide don’t have sufficient training and guidance to support women with Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting (FGMC), which highlights the need for more awareness campaigns and education. (Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights)
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - December 10, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Yvonne ZurynskiPremala SureshkumarAmy PhuElizabeth Elliott Source Type: research

Cross sectional study on attitudes of Serbian mothers with preschool children: should a HIV-positive female teacher be allowed to continue teaching in school?
The objective of this survey was to identify the correlation between socio-demographic characteristics and knowledge, attitudes and practices of mothers with preschool children, and their attitude towards whether a HIV-positive female teacher should be allowed to continue teaching in school.MethodThis survey was additional study analysis of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) in the Republic of Serbia conducted in the period November–December 2010 following the UNICEF methodology. Women deemed eligible for the survey were those who had children under five, had never lost a child, were not pregnant at the time of...
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - November 17, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Zorica Terzic-SupicMilena Santric-MilicevicMomcilo MirkovicSvetlana KaricIvan Soldatovic Source Type: research

Long-term mental health of war-refugees: a systematic literature review
Conclusions: There is a need for more methodologically consistent and rigorous research on the mental health of long-settled war refugees. Existing evidence suggests that mental disorders tend to be highly prevalent in war refugees many years after resettlement. This increased risk may not only be a consequence of exposure to wartime trauma but may also be influenced by post-migration socio-economic factors. (Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights)
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - October 28, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Marija BogicAnthony NjokuStefan Priebe Source Type: research

From conceptual pluralism to practical agreement on policy: global responsibility for global health
Conclusions: The 2014 Lancet Commission on Global Governance for Health Report asks whether a single global health protection fund would be better for global health than the current patchwork of global and national social transfers. We concur with this suggestion and argue that there is much room for practical agreement on a Global Fund for Health that moves from the conceptual level into policies and practice that advance global health. The issues of shared responsibility and mutual accountability feature widely in the post-2015 discussions and need to be addressed in a coherent manner. Our article argues why and how a Gl...
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - October 28, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Jennifer RugerRachel HammondsGorik OomsDonna BarryAudrey ChapmanWim Van Damme Source Type: research

Victims and/or perpetrators? Towards an interdisciplinary dialogue on child soldiers
This article deepens on the question how to conceptualize the victim-perpetrator imaginary about child soldiers, starting from three disciplines, children’s rights law, psychosocial approaches and transitional justice, and then proceeding into an interdisciplinary approach.DiscussionWe argue that the victim–perpetrator dichotomy in relation to child soldiers needs to be revisited, and that this can only be done successfully through a truly interdisciplinary approach. Key to this interdisciplinary dialogue is the growing awareness within all three disciplines, but admittedly only marginally within children’s rights la...
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - October 14, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Ilse DerluynWouter VandenholeStephan ParmentierCindy Mels Source Type: research

Comprehensive peace agreement implementation and reduction in neonatal, infant and under-5 mortality rates in post-armed conflict states, 1989–2012
Conclusion: Ongoing armed conflicts are responsible for massive displacements and the destruction of economic, healthcare and human infrastructure, thus hindering improvements in child survival. For better health outcomes in post-armed conflict countries, ongoing armed conflict must cease through the signing and implementation of a CPA. Short-term and long-term public health issues are discussed in concluding comments. (Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights)
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - October 8, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Madhav Joshi Source Type: research

“You cannot eat rights”: a qualitative study of views by Zambian HIV-vulnerable women, youth and MSM on human rights as public health tools
ConclusionsA rights-based approach seeks to tackle the symbolic drivers of HIV—its undeniable roots in cultural and religious systems of discrimination. Yet, it fails to resonate with youth and women’s own understandings of their needs and priorities due to its neglect of material drivers of HIV such as poverty and unemployment. MSM, who suffer extreme stigma and discrimination, have less to lose and much to gain from an approach that challenges inequitable social systems. Developing effective HIV-prevention strategies requires careful dialogue with vulnerable groups and greater flexibility for context-specific impleme...
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - October 5, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Choolwe MuzyambaElena BroaddusCatherine Campbell Source Type: research

Developing human rights based indicators to support country monitoring of rehabilitation services and programmes for people with disabilities: a study protocol
This study has the potential to influence future practices on data collection and measurement of compliance with human rights standards in rehabilitation service delivery and organization. The development of a valid and universally applicable set of indicators will have a profound impact on the design and implementation of evidence informed disability policies and programs as it can support countries in strengthening performance measurement through documentation of comparative information on rehabilitation care systems. Most importantly, the resulting indicators can be used by disabled people’s organizations as well as n...
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - September 24, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Dimitrios SkempesJerome Bickenbach Source Type: research

Experience and lessons from health impact assessment for human rights impact assessment
As globalisation has opened remote parts of the world to foreign investment, global leaders at the United Nations and beyond have called on multinational companies to foresee and mitigate negative impacts on the communities surrounding their overseas operations. This movement towards corporate impact assessment began with a push for environmental and social inquiries. It has been followed by demands for more detailed assessments, including health and human rights. In the policy world the two have been joined as a right-to-health impact assessment. In the corporate world, the right-to-health approach fulfils neither manager...
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - September 16, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Kendyl SalcitoJürg UtzingerGary KriegerMark WielgaBurton SingerMirko WinklerMitchell Weiss Source Type: research

Circumstances leading to intimate partner violence against women married as children: a qualitative study in Urban Slums of Lahore, Pakistan
Background: Child marriage ( (Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights)
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - August 25, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Muazzam NasrullahRubeena ZakarMuhammad ZakarSafdar AbbasRabia Safdar Source Type: research

“Everywhere but not specifically somewhere”: a qualitative study on why the right to health is not explicit in the post-2015 negotiations
Conclusions: This paper reports the views of participants, many of who sit at the interface of United Nations and Member State negotiations, on the right to health’s location (and projected trajectory) at two temporal junctions in evolving post-2015 negotiations. The interviews provide insight into high-level hesitancy that the right to health be expressly incorporated in the final post-2015 health and development goal, as well as documents participants’ doubt that rights language will explicitly frame the broader Sustainable Development Goals, their targets and indicators. (Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights)
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - August 21, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Claire BrolanPeter HillGorik Ooms Source Type: research