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About this Guide

Purpose and organization

This Resource Guide was originally prepared for Equal Partners: Health and Human Rights, a global seminar for Open Society Institute and Soros Foundation staff held in Cape Town, South Africa from June 3-8, 2007. To acquire PDFs in English of either the full hardcopy Resource Guide or of partial guides, please visit the Downloads page of this website. "Partial guides" contain individual chapters along with an introduction on general health and human rights information. Select partial guides are available in Russian, Spanish, and Romanian as well as English. Please note that this website differs slightly from the PDFs.

The Guide covers the basic concepts and resources in health and human rights and contains seven chapters, each on a different health issue of priority concern to the Open Society Institute (OSI) and Soros Foundations Network (SFN), and one appendix.

The seven chapters are:

• Chapter 1: Human rights in patient care
• Chapter 2: HIV/AIDS and human rights
• Chapter 3: Harm reduction and human rights
• Chapter 4: Palliative care and human rights
• Chapter 5: Sexual health and human rights
• Chapter 6: Health and human rights in minority communities
• Chapter 7: Mental health and human rights
• Appendix: Thirteen health and human rights documents

Each chapter is organized into six sections that answer the following questions:

1. How is this human rights issue?
2. What is OSI’s work on this issue?
3. Which are the most relevant international and regional human rights standards related to this issue?
4. What are some effective human rights programming on this issue?
5. Where can I find additional resources on this issue?  
6. What are key terms related to this issue? 
   

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