Deadline: 30 September 2015
Papers are being accepted for Health and Human Rights Journal special issue in June 2016 on TB and the right to health. Despite the fact that TB is a curable disease, the global TB burden remains at epidemic proportions. Million people died from this disease globally.
Human rights and the right to health in particular, must be used as tools to increase access to testing and treatment for TB, including for MDR- and XDR-TB. In contrast to traditional public health or strictly biomedical approaches to TB, a rights-based approach must focus on the underlying social and economic determinants of the disease, articulate the rights of people living with and vulnerable to TB, and encourage people to claim these rights. Rights-based approaches also establish the legal obligations of governments and non-state actors, such as drug manufacturers and private health providers, to prevent the spread of TB and to ensure good quality TB testing and treatment are available and accessible for all.
Title of article
Title is short, effective that contains necessary and relevant information required for accurate electronic retrieval of the work.
- The title should be comprehensible to readers outside your field.
- Avoid specialist abbreviations if possible.
Paper Topics
Potential paper topics will focus specifically on TB and the right to health. Topics might include, among others:
- The individual rights and entitlements of people living with and vulnerable to TB.
- The obligations of States and non-state actors under human rights law to respect, protect and fulfill rights, including through prevention measures, and diagnosis and treatment.
- The role of human rights in promoting the availability, accessibility and acceptability of good quality testing and treatment for TB.
- The impact of stigma and discrimination in the lives of people living with and vulnerable to TB.
- The situation of key affected populations.
- The State’s duty to protect against violations of human rights by non-state actors, such as pharmaceutical companies and private health providers.
Submission Details
- Papers must be submitted by email to the address given on the website.
- Papers have a maximum word length of 7,000 words, including references.
- To be considered, papers must focus on an aspect of TB from a human rights perspective.
For more information, please visit Call for papers.
