Revitalising the right to health is essential to securing better health for all
Despite remarkable advances in medicine, millions of people are still denied health care. The report of the International AIDS Society–Lancet Commission on Health and Human Rights is an important contribution on the urgent need for accelerated and transformational action on realising the right to health.1 The right to health is a duty held by all states under international human rights law2 and covers a range of entitlements, including available, accessible, acceptable, and good quality health care for mental and physical health, along with freedoms such as bodily autonomy.