From political battles in the United States to conflict zones in the Middle East, the notion that health care is a human right is under attack, according to speakers at Global Health Day in May. Since 2008, according to one speaker, it has become more dangerous to be a health care provider in a conflict zone than a peacekeeper. Denying health care has become a weapon of war, said Hani Mowafi, M.D., and health workers also may be targeted as witnesses to human rights violations. And, in the United States, said another speaker, the right to health care has become a political and partisan battleground as opponents of the Affordable Care Act try to undo the health care legislation. Health and human rights was the theme of this year’s Global Health Day, sponsored by the Office of Global Health and the Department of Internal Medicine on May 8.
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