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A Tribute to Jonathan Mann: Health and Human Rights in the AIDS Pandemic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Lawrence O. Gostin
Lawrence O. Gostin*
Affiliation:
Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D. C.
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It was a characteristically cold, bright morning in Geneva in 1986, and I had just taken the Number 8 bus from the Cornavin to the headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO). I wandered into a cluttered and cramped office filled with unopened boxes and scattered papers. Jonathan Mann and a competent Swiss secretary, Edith Bernard, had just moved in. Together, they alone constituted the WHO team that would mobilize the global effort against an emerging plague-the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Jonathan had recently come from Kinshasa where he led Projet SIDA, an innovative international program to reduce the already weighty burden of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Africa.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , Fall 1998 , pp. 256 - 258
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1998

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References

Mann, J., “Health and Human Rights,” Journal of Health and Human Rights, 1 (1994): 6-22. See also Gostin, L.O. Lazzarini, Z., Human Rights and Public Health in the AIDS Pandemic (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997) (with a foreword by the director of the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, and an Afterword by Jonathan Mann).Google Scholar