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Using Health Rights to Design Aid-Funded Health Programs so They First do no Harm
- Human Rights Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 36, Number 2, May 2014
- pp. 428-446
- 10.1353/hrq.2014.0032
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This article reports on the development of a framework that guides aid-funded health programs to meet health rights obligations by focusing on health systems. The framework includes indicator-based tools that correspond to the three categories of rights obligations: respecting health rights by designing with a full understanding of the health system; fulfilling health rights by designing available, accessible, acceptable, and quality services; and protecting health rights by conducting a health systems impact assessment to ensure the health system is not weakened by program demands. The tools within this rights-based framework can assist the design of global health initiatives so that they work to strengthen health systems and meet rights obligations.