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Human Rights Principles in Public Health Emergencies: From the Siracusa Principles to COVID-19 and Beyond

Bill of Health

Yet when COVID-19 – the greatest health emergency in a century – devastated the world, the Siracusa Principles seemed unequal to the task – too narrow, including with their remit limited to civil and political rights, not sufficiently specific, and above all, without sufficient accountability.

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Conclusion to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

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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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Securing a Place for Children’s Rights in Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

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. What relevance does the CRC framework hold for the interpretation and implementation of the Principles ?

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3 Lessons Learned from Pandemic-Era Clinical Development Regulatory Practices

HIT Consultant

Ronan Brown, SVP and Head of Integrated Global Compliance, IQVIA. 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.

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Scarcity Is Not an Excuse to Discriminate: Age and Disability in Health Care Rationing

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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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How the Medical Industry Can Help Combat the Current Coronavirus Crisis

Exeed Regulatory Compliance

A novel coronavirus, now called SARS-CoV-19, was first detected in the Hubei province of China in early December 2019. This guidance went into effect to allow some of the CLIA certified labs for high-complexity testing to begin using their newly developed tests for detecting the SARS-CoV-19 virus in suspect cases.

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SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary | Monthly Update 2023 – May And June

SQA

The rules of RDC 786/2023 correspond to a normative update, which replaces RDC 302/2005. Experience with large-scale events such as Hurricane Maria and the COVID-19 pandemic, and more recent geopolitical events, have cast a wider lens on global supply chain and distribution vulnerabilities.

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