Protecting the health of the poor : social movements in the south / edited by Abraar Karan and Geeta Sodhi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 17, 2015).

Requesting a compulsory licence for Kaletra, an HIV/AIDS antiretroviral drug, in Colombia /Luz Marina Umbasía Bernal -- Impact of the World Trade Organization's Agreements on agriculture and on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights on the health of citizens in the developing world: a poverty-production-based critique /Kwadwo Appiagyel-Atua -- Managing an A(H1N1) pandemic: public health or healthy business? /Germán Velásquez -- Catastrophic health expenditure, health insurance coverage, and poor people in India: new evidence on healthcare costs leading to impoverishment /T.V. Sekher, Kaushalendra Kumar, and V.P. Shijith -- Crisis of the global innovation model for medicines: a civil society organizations' perspective /Francisco Rossi Buenaventura and Luis Guillermo Restrepo Vélez -- Advancing tobacco use prevention and cessation among socio-economically disadvantaged young persons in India /Monika Arora [and others] -- Addressing the vulnerability of urban poor women to negative maternal and newborn health outcomes /Geeta Sadhi and Skylab Sahu -- International poverty law and human rights from below: Latin American affirmation of the right to health of indigenous peoples, migrants, and the displaced /Camilo Pérez-Bustillo -- Sociopolitics of HIV in Uganda: proposing a socio-behavioural movement in response to donor politics and the economic crisis /Abraar Karan -- Health impact frund: aligning incentives /Thomas Pogge.

Argues for a comprehensive agenda for a fight against poverty and for protecting the health of the poor.

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