Dear friends, This week’s update features a guest blog
on medical professionalism that sheds light on less recognized human rights
abuses in health care: from denying morphine to cancer patients to coercing
marginalized women to submit to sterilization procedures. We also share a new report on efforts to improve
women’s access to harm reduction services in Thank you for reading, and please join the Open Society
Public Health Program on Facebook. Paul Silva |
Medical
Professionalism and Human Rights Violations The complicity of medical professionals in the abuse
and torture of prisoners has been well documented. What is less recognized,
though, is how state-sponsored violations of human rights can undermine
medical professionalism in day-to-day clinical practice. In a new blog post, Leonard Rubenstein, former executive director
of Physicians for Human Rights and a Senior Scholar at the Center for Human
Rights and Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, argues that the medical community must take a stand against
government policies that undermine the health of marginalized groups. Read
more and add your voice to the Open Society blog. |
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Women Drug Users Out of the Shadows Women who use drugs face profound challenges to
accessing essential health care. In many countries, harm reduction programs
are taking active steps to reach out to women by providing gender-sensitive
services. A new fact sheet produced by the Open Society Public Health Program
documents how five harm reduction projects in |
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