Article by Tenu Avafia, Boyan Konstantinov, Kene Esom, Judit Rius Sanjuan, and Rebecca Schleifer. Health and Human Rights Journal.
March 24, 2020.
There are several lessons to be learned by governments and international organizations from the response to the HIV and TB epidemics that could be crucial to the success of the response to COVID-19. These include ensuring that human rights principles are entrenched in the COVID-19 response, relying on the best available evidence to inform decision making, and the fostering of global collaboration to fuel innovation and equitable access while ensuing the allocation of adequate financial and other resources needed to mount an effective response. A rights-based response to COVID-19 contains many important aspects, among them, the right to health, equality and non-discrimination, freedom of peaceful assembly, association and movement, an adequate standard of living, as well as the right to benefit from scientific progress. This viewpoint focuses on the right to health as underpinned by principle of transparency.
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