BACKGROUND The rights of women and people living with HIV (PLHIV) are protected under South African law, yet there is a gap in the application of these laws. While there are numerous systemic and social barriers to women's and PLHIV's exercise of their legal rights and rights to access social services, there has been little effort to document these barriers as well as legal needs and knowledge ...

The practice of pharmacy has changed over recent years with a greater emphasis on the patient and the provision of patient care services. This expanded role of pharmacists as medication managers has resulted in changes to their professional responsibility and potential legal liability. Recent international case law demonstrates an increased legal liability of pharmacists in certain instances. H...

Socioeconomic disparities in health persist despite significant advances in medicine, universal coverage, and quality of care.1,2 Although the relationship between poverty and poor health is complex, access to basic needs such as adequate housing and nutrition, appropriate education, and personal safety is well documented to improve health trajectories.3 The article by Beck et al4 in this issue...

legal abortion services of one per 157,354 individuals, access to safe abortion in Rajasthan is limited (Johnston 2002). Most of the estimated 352,000 induced abortions every year in the state are performed illegally by uncertified medical or non-medical practitioners (Chhabra and Nuna 1994). Thus, by implication, Rajasthan is among the states in India where increased access to safe abortion se...

Relations between ethics in general - and medical ethics in particular - and legal systems are complex and have been extensively examined in the literature. The topic is important not only for ethicists and jurists, but also for members of the public, who benefit from the services offered by the professions. While the Italian Institute of Health does not claim to propose new avenues for explora...

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CS_ALUM_NEWS-L is a free email listerv sponsored by the Career Services department. It is directed towards Pace Alumni and experienced graduate students who are currently seeking full-time employment. Periodically, Career Services will post job listings received from third party recruiters and companies and career related announcements. If you are an alumnus/a of the Law School, please go to th...

This paper looks into the legal and administrative frameworks governing the different aspects of using IT as a medium and a tool in production of health care services. The administrative framework is described from the point of view of the status quo in Finland. The issues are elaborated by a discussion of a number of legal aspects and a short description of normative insights from actors in th...

This paper presents the first (randomized) algorithm for implementing self-stabilizing group communication services in an asynchronous system. Our algorithm converges rapidly to legal behavior and is communication adaptive, namely, the communication volume is high when the system recovers from the occurrence of faults and is low once a legal state is reached. Communication adaptability is achie...