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Assessing the Right to Health in the Sixth Millennium Development Goal in the Eastern Caribbean
Author(s) -
Reddock Jennifer R.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
world medical and health policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.326
H-Index - 11
ISSN - 1948-4682
DOI - 10.1002/wmh3.192
Subject(s) - millennium development goals , declaration , economic growth , human rights , global health , political science , national development , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , perspective (graphical) , right to development , caribbean region , geography , development economics , developing country , medicine , health care , family medicine , latin americans , law , computer science , artificial intelligence , economics
Millennium Development Goal 6 aimed to combat HIV/AIDS, and target 6B specifically focused on universal access to antiretrovirals. Global Millennium Development Goal (MDG) reporting based on national averages missed smaller populations and did not include a human rights viewpoint. Six countries in the Eastern Caribbean that endorsed the 2000 Millennium Declaration that were not included in global UNAIDS estimates were selected for this study. In this paper, physicians in the Eastern Caribbean provide a qualitative assessment of the sixth MDG from a right to health perspective that includes the dimensions of availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality.