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Human rights and drug control : access to controlled essential medicines in resource-constrained countries / Marie Elske Gispen.

By: Material type: TextSeries: School of Human Rights Research series ; v. 80.Publication details: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; Portland, OR : Intersentia, [2017]Description: xxiii, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781780684543
  • 1780684541
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • JC571 .G52 2017
Contents:
Access to Controlled Essential Medicines: Context, Background, Framing, and Focus -- Access to Controlled Essential Medicines and Aspects of Drug Control in Human Rights Law -- In Search of a Normative Justification -- Bridging Theory and Practice: Introduction to the Country Studies -- Country Study I : Uganda -- Country Study II : Latvia.
Summary: "Globally, millions of people suffer health and socio-economic related problems due to the unavailability of controlled essential medicines, such as morphine for pain treatment, which leaves them in disabling and sometimes degrading situations. Controlled essential medicines are medicines included in the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, and whose active substance is listed under the international drug-control treaties. Their availability and accessibility therefore fall within the remit of both human rights and international drug-control law. Even though the unavailability of controlled essential medicines is generally caused by a multifaceted and complex interplay of factors, the current international drug-control framework paradoxically hinders rather than fosters the access to medicines"--Back cover.
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Books African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights Library JC571 .G52 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Donation by Raoul Wallenberg Institute, November 2021 10197257

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-345) and index.

Access to Controlled Essential Medicines: Context, Background, Framing, and Focus -- Access to Controlled Essential Medicines and Aspects of Drug Control in Human Rights Law -- In Search of a Normative Justification -- Bridging Theory and Practice: Introduction to the Country Studies -- Country Study I : Uganda -- Country Study II : Latvia.

"Globally, millions of people suffer health and socio-economic related problems due to the unavailability of controlled essential medicines, such as morphine for pain treatment, which leaves them in disabling and sometimes degrading situations. Controlled essential medicines are medicines included in the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, and whose active substance is listed under the international drug-control treaties. Their availability and accessibility therefore fall within the remit of both human rights and international drug-control law. Even though the unavailability of controlled essential medicines is generally caused by a multifaceted and complex interplay of factors, the current international drug-control framework paradoxically hinders rather than fosters the access to medicines"--Back cover.

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