Bill of Health

JANUARY 18, 2024

While receiving significant global traction and acceptance since their publication in 1985, the Siracusa Principles, the authors argue, proved to be simply “unequal to the task” of guiding States’ conduct in the context of COVID-19 because they are “unable to speak in any significant detail to the particular concerns of public health crises.”

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

By Anita Gholami The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which brings together parliamentarians from 46 member States, has been a vigilant guardian of respect for the European Convention on Human Rights and other international standards throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Despite these experiences, Kenya failed take a human rights-based approach to responding to COVID-19, as was also the case in many other countries. Deepening this challenge, the enactment of new legislation during the COVID-19 pandemic — and especially in its early stages — was near impossible.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

COVID-19 and the U.S. health system The COVID-19 pandemic had devastating effects on the United States, and brought these long standing health inequities and policy failures – from resource allocation to public health coordination – into the view of the general American public.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the accompanying infodemic gained visibility through the widespread use of digital resources, platforms and tools to support a range of social interactions, activities, and pandemic countermeasures.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified this legal challenge and highlighted the need to treat liability as a key legal preparedness issue. The demand for liability protections reemerged in 2009 during H1N1, in attenuated form during the 2014-15 West Africa Ebola public health emergency, and, prominently, during COVID-19.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2023

By Roojin Habibi, Timothy Fish Hodgson, and Alicia Ely Yamin Today, as the world transitions from living in the grips of a novel coronavirus to living with an entrenched, widespread infectious disease known as COVID-19, global appreciation for the human rights implications of public health crises are once again rapidly fading from view.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The vulnerability of the child in global health emergencies At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, 194 countries and territories shut their schools nationally , affecting the right to education of more than a billion children. should account for the best interests of the child as a primary consideration.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Reports by the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR) and partners showed that this situation was a breeding ground for discrimination and inequality in accessing health care services during COVID-19.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 18, 2021

The world has been in urgent need of COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and diagnostic tools. Here’s a look at what we’ve learned from COVID-19 era regulatory practices in clinical development. This first came for COVID-19 test kits and treatments aimed at minimizing symptoms and shortening disease duration.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 5, 2023

By Silvia Serrano Guzmán On July 4, 2023 the Constitutional Court of Colombia handed down a landmark decision on one of the most difficult dilemmas faced during the COVID-19 pandemic: the rationing of intensive care in situations of scarcity.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

Despite pediatric COVID-19 vaccine availability, many youth remain unvaccinated , and are thus at higher risk of life-altering outcomes as a result of contracting COVID-19. [1]. Youth in the foster care system and those who are justice-involved face additional challenges during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

By Anne Kjersti Befring and Cecilia Marcela Bailliet Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic posed a grave threat to humanity and revealed the need for a new approach to improve transnational cooperation within the global health system and new perspectives on solidarity addressing the cross-border spread of infection and distribution of vaccines.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 14, 2023

By María Natalia Echegoyemberry and Francisco Verbic This article looks at the COVID-19 pandemic response in Argentina, with a particular focus on the judicial control of public health policies. We focus on a case in Argentina where a federal judge ordered the suspension of the campaign for pediatric vaccination against COVID-19.

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Drug & Device Law

JANUARY 4, 2024

So we do have comments on the bizarre complaint that the Texas attorney general recently filed over COVID-19. The complaint, brought under the Texas consumer protection statute, sued a major manufacturer of COVID-19 vaccine that was used to control the recent pandemic. The suit “relates to” – at least – “the. . .

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