Starvation as a weapon of war must stop
The theme of World Health Day on April 7 is ‘my health, my right’, underscoring the UN’s assertion that “every human being is entitled to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health conducive to living a life in dignity”. In this week’s issue, the report from Under threat: the International AIDS Society–Lancet Commission on Health and Human Rights examines the steady deterioration of the global commitment to human rights in the 21st century, with serious and increasingly damaging effects on health.