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Human rights implications of mandatory premarital HIV testing in Nigeria
(International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 2010-04)
This article considers the implications of public health policy on the enjoyment of individuals’ fundamental rights. It specifically examines the appropriateness of mandatory premarital human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) ...
The Ebola Virus and Human Rights Concerns in Africa
(African Journal of Reproductive Health, 2015)
In the wake of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) that is ravaging parts of Africa certain measures are being taken by governments to prevent the spread of the epidemic within their borders. Some of these measures are drastic ...
Mainstreaming the ‘Abortion question’ into the right to health in Uganda
(Dullah Omar Institute, 2021)
The right to health is a social and economic right that requires progressive realisation by
states (Chenwi 2013). Although Uganda’s Constitution does not provide for the right to health,
the country is a signatory to the ...
Africa, prisons and COVID-19
(Oxford University Press, 2020)
Africa’s prisons are a long-standing concern for rights defenders given the prevalence
of rights abuses, overcrowding, poor conditions of detention and the extent to which
the criminal justice system is used to target ...
Federalism under pressure: Federal ‘health’ factors and ‘co-morbidities’
(Routledge, 2021)
The Covid-19 pandemic has been a ‘focusing event’ (Béland et al. 2020) for federalism like no other, placing it under the microscope and giving rise to the three
questions set out in the introduction of this book. Each ...
South Africa: Surfing towards centralisation on the Covid-19 wave
(Routledge, 2021)
When the Covid-19 pandemic reached its shores between February and March
2020, South Africa was already in a vulnerable situation – socially, economically,
and politically. Although the country’s population, estimated ...
Controlling public health emergencies in federal systems
(Routledge, 2021)
It was merely a day after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the
coronavirus disease (Covid-19) a global pandemic that Ethiopia recorded its first
case of infection. On 12 March 2020, a week after entering the ...
Introduction: How federations combat Covid-19
(Routledge, 2021)
On 31 December 2019, the first cases of the coronavirus, Covid-19, were identified in Wuhan City, China. Its dramatic rate of transmission and deadly effects
soon led to the city’s shutdown, but not before it took wing ...
Reaping “bumper harvests” during the Covid-19 pandemic: Interrogating the dynamics of corruption during the procurement of relief and healthcare items in Uganda
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
The discovery of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV2 or COVID-19) in Wuhan, China was considered a Chinese problem by Ugandans until confirmation of the first positive test in the country, in March 2020. The government went into ...
Veiled intent or advancing children’s right to education? The legality of payments for extra lessons in Zimbabwe’s education system
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Extra lessons in Zimbabwe were initially designed by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education to assist learners with lagging aspects of their formal school learning areas. However, in the past few years, extra ...