Making Health Care a Human Right

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The 1948 United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights called for everyone to have a standard of living adequate for health and well-being. As part of the University of San Diego’s 20th annual Social Issues Conference last week, four USD professors talked about how that goal can still become a reality.

Four professors from the Hahn School of  Nursing and Health Science (pictured, right) have participated in international missions across the globe. Lois Howland has worked in Mexico and Haiti to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS. Susan Bonnell has helped provide pediatric services and educatation to people in the Dominican Republic. Barbara Sarter is investigating the use of homeopathic cures for cancer in India. Anita Hunter (pictured, bottom right) worked with other USD professors and students to help build a hospital in Uganda to keep children from dying of malaria and other diseases.

“We with so much, have a duty to help those with so little, overcome the barriers that prevent them from achieving their universal human rights,” said  Hunter, director of international programs for the nursing school.

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