Public health measures to control tuberculosis in low-income countries: ethics and human rights considerations
Keywords: ethics; human rights; public health; tuberculosis
Document Type: Regular Paper
Affiliations: 1: O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA; Department of Health Systems Administration, Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies, Washington, DC, USA; and Tiyatien Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 2: O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA 3: Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa; Ethical, Social, & Cultural Issues Advisory Service, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative, McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and Joint Centre for Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 4: O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA; University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 5: O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Publication date: 01 June 2011
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