The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.

The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.

The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.

The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money

If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.