A little something new
After reading hundreds and hundreds of pages about taking a human rights approach to health care, I am moving on to a new project! I will be helping to make the website a little more user friendly!
Last week I completed my task of reviewing many articles about the human rights based approach (HRBA). It was great for me because I was able to learn a great deal, especially what all of the acronyms mean. Did you know that in Sierra Leone and Afghanistan 1 in 6 women die due to complications with childbirth? In what is considered to be the developed world, women have a 1 in 2800 chance of dying from complications in childbirth. What are some of the reasons for this? Perhaps women do not have access to care, access to information, or access to safe abortion procedures. By denying access to any of these three areas, the country is denying basic human rights. My job was to find such injustices and find programs that were trying to work through these areas by following as HRBA. I was able to find many examples all over the world, and now get to move on to a new project.
I will now be working on the website in order to make it more user friendly and emphasize exactly what PIHHR does. if you take a look at our website, (http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/pihhr/) you will be able to see that it is indeed a tad cluttered. Therefore, we want to emphasize the work that is being completed through our program and our partner programs. Any suggestions from people are welcome! I will continue to do work on the manual by fitting the case studies into appropriate portions of the manual while continuing to look for examples. This project is listed as " 'Human Rights-Based Approaches to Programming': Practical Implementation including a Training Manual, Training Materials and Training of Trainers" on the website if you want to read more about it!