01.09.2015

A qualitative study on why the right to health is not explicit in the post-2015 negotiations

“Everywhere but not specifically somewhere”

BioMed Central “The MDGs expire at the end of 2015 and global negotiations are underway to finalise the post-2015 SDGs (...). Much activism has occurred encouraging a post-2015 health and development goal embedded in the highest attainable standard of health (‘right to health’). Despite this, the right to health was absent in three key post-2015 intergovernmental Sustainable Development Goal proposals in 2014 (...).

This article examines why it appears the right to health, so far, is not gaining direct expression in post-2015 discussion."  Study by Claire E. Brolan, Peter S. Hill and Gorik Ooms. (Photo: United Nations)