ArticleHealth and human rights2016
Falling Short of the Rights to Health and Scientific Progress: Inadequate TB Drug Research and Access.
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- Global excess tuberculosis mortality during COVID-19: a country-level modeling study of policy and development correlates.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The Right to Science as a Guidepost for Fair Access to COVID-19 Vaccines: Investigating the Interpretive Role of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.Health and human rights · 2022Article
- Access to experimental medicines for TB: ethical and human rights considerations.The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2020Article
- Quality of drug-resistant tuberculosis care: Gaps and solutions.Journal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases · 2019Review
- Fighting TB stigma: we need to apply lessons learnt from HIV activism.BMJ global health · 2017Article
- Why the Convention on the Rights of the Child must become a guiding framework for the realization of the rights of children affected by tuberculosis.BMC international health and human rights · 2016Article
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Abstract
The incorporation of human rights-based approaches into TB programs is gaining traction, but little work has explored the application of human rights norms and principles to TB research (a domain traditionally left to bioethics). TB research is gravely underfunded, and the scarcity of resources for TB drug development has contributed to the stubborn persistence of the TB epidemic and helped to create the conditions under which drug-resistant TB has developed and spread. This article shows how human rights-particularly human rights standards, norms, and principles related to the rights to health and benefits of scientific progress-can provide insight into understanding how underfunding TB drug research undermines efforts to secure access to safe, effective, and optimized treatment for all people with TB. By analyzing TB research in relation to the rights to health and scientific progress, we aim to clarify the legal obligations of governments to improve the TB drug research system, fund TB research, and make medical advances that result from research available to all people with TB.
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