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Health and Human Rights Journal HHr Health and Human Rights Journal HHR_final_logo_alone.indd 1 10/19/15 10:53 AM Health and Human Rights Journal JUNE 2018, VOLUME 20, NUMBER 1 special sections Neglected Tropical Diseases and Human Rights Judicial Enforcement of Health Rights: Focus on Latin America Publisher Harvard University Press Editor-in-Chief Paul Farmer Guest Editors – Neglected Tropical Diseases and Human Rights Joseph J. Amon David G. Addiss Guest Editors – Judicial Enforcement of Health Rights: Focus on Latin America Octavio Luiz Motta Ferraz Alicia Ely Yamin Executive Editor Carmel Williams Senior Editor Jessica Moore Kaplan Copy Editors Morgan Stoffregen Jessica Moore Kaplan Contributing Editor Arlan Fuller Designer Catlin Rockman ABOUT THE JOURNAL MASTHEAD Health and Human Rights Journal began publication in 1994 under Publisher Editorial Board the editorship of Jonathan Mann, who was succeeded in 1997 by Sofia Harvard University Press Philip Alston Gruskin. 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Health and Human Rights Journal (online) issn 2150–4113 Table of Contents SPECIAL SECTION ON NEGLECTED SPECIAL SECTION ON JUDICIAL TROPICAL DISEASES AND HUMAN ENFORCEMENT OF HEALTH RIGHTS: RIGHTS FOCUS ON LATIN AMERICA In collaboration with Helen Keller International, In collaboration with the O’Neill Institute, USA and with financial support from Children’s Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA Investment Fund Foundation, London, UK editorial foreword 67 Health in the Courts of Latin America 1 Embodying Law and Embedding Public Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz Health with the Voices of Those Affected: Ending NTDs by 2030 79 Revisiting Health Rights Litigation and Alice Cruz Access to Medications in Costa Rica: Preliminary Evidence from the Cochrane Editorial Collaboration Reform 5 “Equipping Practitioners”: Linking Neglected Olman Rodríguez Loaiza, Sigrid Morales, Ole Tropical Diseases and Human Rights Frithjof Norheim, and Bruce M. Wilson Joseph J. Amon and David G. Addiss 93 How the Uruguayan Judiciary Shapes Access 11 Addressing Inequity: Neglected Tropical to High-Priced Medicines: A Critique Diseases and Human Rights through the Right to Health Lens Nina Sun and Joseph J. Amon Lucía Berro Pizzarossa, Katrina Perehudoff, and José Castela Forte 27 Emotional Difficulties and Experiences of Stigma among Persons with Lymphatic 107 Can Judges Ration with Compassion? A Filariasis in Plateau State, Nigeria Priority-Setting Rights Matrix Jibril Abdulmalik, Emeka Nwefoh, James Christopher Newdick Obindo, Samuel Dakwak, Motunrayo Ayobola, John Umaru, Elisha Samuel, Christopher 121 Evolving the Right to Health: Rethinking Ogoshi, and Julian Eaton the Normative Response to Problems of Judicialization 41 Building Trust through Lymphatic Filariasis Keith Syrett Elimination: A Platform to Address Social Exclusion and Human Rights in the 133 Realizing the Fundamental Right to Health Dominican Republic through Litigation: The Colombian Case Hunter Keys, Manuel Gonzales, Madsen Beau Aquiles Ignacio Arrieta-Gómez De Rochars, Stephen Blount, and Gregory S. Noland 147 Individual Healthcare Litigation in Brazil through a Different Lens: Strengthening 53 A Human Right to Shoes? Establishing Rights Health Technology Assessment and New and Duties in the Prevention and Treatment Models of Healthcare Governance of Podoconiosis Danielle da Costa Leite Borges Arianne Shahvisi, Enguday Meskele, and Gail Davey 163 Expanding the Debate: Citizen Participation 259 Case Study: Degree of Integration of for the Implementation of the Right to Health Disability Rights Into Allied Health in Brazil Professional Education Regiane Garcia Claire Bowley, Ann-Mason Furmage, Kanchan Marcus, and Stephanie D. Short 173 Challenges in Priority Setting from a Legal Perspective in Brazil, Costa Rica, Chile, and 273 Inequitable Physical Illness and Premature Mexico Mortality for People with Severe Mental Sofía Charvel, Fernanda Cobo, Silvana Larrea, Illness in Australia: A Social Analysis and Juliana Baglietto Melanie Edmunds 185 Access to Justice in Health Matters: 283 Cultural Rights and First Nations Health Care An Analysis Based on the Monitoring in Canada Mechanisms of the Inter-American System Stephen Wilmot Laura Pautassi perspective 295 Adolescent Rights and the “First 1,000 days” GENERAL PAPERS Global Nutrition Movement: A View from Guatemala 199 A Comparison of Health Achievements in David Flood,
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