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HIV and the Right to Health in Colombia
The first Colombian to claim a judicially enforceable right to health was a gay man living with HIV, who in 1992 claimed a violation of his constitutional rights on account of being denied antiretroviral therapy. Since then, HIV activists have been at the forefront of advancing both the judicializat...
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2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5395009/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28559683 |
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author | Prachniak-rincón, Corey Villar de Onís, Jimena |
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description | The first Colombian to claim a judicially enforceable right to health was a gay man living with HIV, who in 1992 claimed a violation of his constitutional rights on account of being denied antiretroviral therapy. Since then, HIV activists have been at the forefront of advancing both the judicialization and social reconstruction of health as a human right. However, their role—and its implications today—has been sometimes overlooked in the study of Colombia’s right to health. Based on semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders, we evaluate the HIV movement’s effect on the progression of the right to health and resulting health care reform, and analyze the reform’s success in addressing the needs of people living with HIV. While the landmark Constitutional Court decision T-760 and resulting health care reform are not the result of any one group, the HIV movement played a significant role in these developments, and its values are largely reflected in the country’s new sociopolitical conceptualization of the right to health. However, the movement has faced division over the issue of generic medication availability and among subpopulations who have not been strongly represented or consistent beneficiaries of its successes. |
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spelling | pubmed-53950092017-05-30 HIV and the Right to Health in Colombia Prachniak-rincón, Corey Villar de Onís, Jimena Health Hum Rights Research-Article The first Colombian to claim a judicially enforceable right to health was a gay man living with HIV, who in 1992 claimed a violation of his constitutional rights on account of being denied antiretroviral therapy. Since then, HIV activists have been at the forefront of advancing both the judicialization and social reconstruction of health as a human right. However, their role—and its implications today—has been sometimes overlooked in the study of Colombia’s right to health. Based on semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders, we evaluate the HIV movement’s effect on the progression of the right to health and resulting health care reform, and analyze the reform’s success in addressing the needs of people living with HIV. While the landmark Constitutional Court decision T-760 and resulting health care reform are not the result of any one group, the HIV movement played a significant role in these developments, and its values are largely reflected in the country’s new sociopolitical conceptualization of the right to health. However, the movement has faced division over the issue of generic medication availability and among subpopulations who have not been strongly represented or consistent beneficiaries of its successes. Harvard University Press 2016-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5395009/ /pubmed/28559683 Text en Copyright © 2016 Prachniak-Rincón and Villar de Onís http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research-Article Prachniak-rincón, Corey Villar de Onís, Jimena HIV and the Right to Health in Colombia |
title | HIV and the Right to Health in Colombia |
title_full | HIV and the Right to Health in Colombia |
title_fullStr | HIV and the Right to Health in Colombia |
title_full_unstemmed | HIV and the Right to Health in Colombia |
title_short | HIV and the Right to Health in Colombia |
title_sort | hiv and the right to health in colombia |
topic | Research-Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5395009/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28559683 |
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