Access to anti-retroviral drugs as a component of the right to health in international law: examining the application of the right in Nigerian jurisprudence

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Title:	Access to anti-retroviral drugs as a component of the right to health in international law: examining the application of the right in Nigerian jurisprudence
Author:	Onyemelukwe, Cheluchi
Year:	2007
Periodical:	African Human Rights Law Journal
Volume:	7
Issue:	2
Pages:	446-474
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	social and economic rights access to health care jurisprudence AIDS
Abstract:	Nigeria has a significant number of people living with HIV/AIDS. Access to anti-retroviral drugs is important to enable such persons to live a healthy life. This paper examines access to anti-retroviral drugs as part of the right to health under international law. It locates the right of health, its scope and content in international human rights instruments and attempts to draw the connection between access to anti-retroviral drugs and the right to health. It examines the interpretation of the right to health in the broader context of socioeconomic rights in Nigerian jurisprudence. It concludes that the jurisprudence leaves much to be desired with respect to the protection of the right to health and specifically to access to anti-retroviral drugs. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]