Are Drug Companies Living Up to Their Human Rights Responsibilities? Moving Toward Assessment

Sofia Gruskin; Zyde Raad

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000310

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Are Drug Companies Living Up to Their Human Rights Responsibilities? Moving Toward Assessment

Sofia Gruskin ,

* E-mail: sgruskin@hsph.harvard.edu

Affiliation Program on International Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Zyde Raad

Affiliation Program on International Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Are Drug Companies Living Up to Their Human Rights Responsibilities? Moving Toward Assessment

Sofia Gruskin,
Zyde Raad

Published: September 28, 2010
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000310

About the Authors

Sofia Gruskin

* E-mail: sgruskin@hsph.harvard.edu

Affiliation Program on International Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Zyde Raad

Affiliation Program on International Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

SG is director of and ZR is program manager at the Program on International Health and Human Rights (PIHHR) at Harvard School of Public Health. PIHHR has received funding from the Merck Company Foundation for a several-year project exploring the roles and responsibilities of the pharmaceutical industry as well as other state and non-state actors with regard to alleviating disease burdens worldwide.

Author Contributions

ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: SG ZR. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: SG ZR. Wrote the first draft of the paper: ZR. Contributed to the writing of the paper: SG ZR.

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