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Law and Health: Profile of a New Initiative

Law and Health: Profile of a New Initiative. Jonathan Cohen OSI Law and Health Initiative Moscow, May 12, 2006. 1. HIV risk and vulnerability. Health issue: Prisoners face a high risk of HIV due to overcrowding and lack of services. Legal strategy:

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Law and Health: Profile of a New Initiative

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  1. Law and Health:Profile of a New Initiative Jonathan Cohen OSI Law and Health Initiative Moscow, May 12, 2006

  2. 1. HIV risk and vulnerability Health issue: Prisoners face a high risk of HIV due to overcrowding and lack of services Legal strategy: Reform sentencing laws to reduce overcrowding in the first place

  3. 2. Availability of health services Health issue: Low availability of pain medication causes needless suffering among people with terminal illness Legal strategy: Identify and address legal and regulatory barriers to availability of pain medication

  4. 3. Abuses within health settings Health issue: Roma suffer discrimination, abuse, coercion, and poor quality of care in health settings Legal strategy: Create legal mechanism for lodging complaints against medical personnel

  5. 4. Quality of life issues Health issue: Despite access to health services, sex workers face constant threat of displacement, eviction, and deportation Legal strategy: Establish legal aid service for sex workers to make claims immigration authorities and landlords

  6. 5. Misallocation of health funds Health issue: Corruption in Global Fund spending prevents scale-up of HIV/AIDS services Legal strategy: Enforce freedom of information laws to monitor and deter corruption in the first place

  7. Five types of projects • Human rights and disease prevention • Legalization of health programs • Patients’ rights and patient agency • Access to legal services • Monitoring and freedom of information

  8. Who will do this? HRGGP OSJI MHI NWP IHRD IPCI RHI SHARP LAHI

  9. Practical details • Budget; foundation matches • Geographic scope • Staffing (NY, foundations) • Strategic planning

  10. Thank you for your attention. Jonathan Cohen jcohen@sorosny.org +1 (212) 548-0624

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