Page 3 - Human Rights

Faculty of Nursing
Adult care Nursing Department

2.5.1 Sexual and reproductive health rights ....................................................................................... 35

2.5.2 Privatization ............................................................................................................................... 37
2.6 Barriers to effective care................................................................................................................... 37

2.6.1 Nurses with disabilities .............................................................................................................. 39
2.6.2 Nurses and research .................................................................................................................. 40
2.7 Nurses and public health crises: HIV/AIDS........................................................................................ 40

2.7.1 Protecting care through protecting rights ................................................................................. 44
2.7.2 Good practice in AIDS care......................................................................................................... 47

2.7.3 Nurses and midwives with HIV/AIDS and those at risk of infection .......................................... 49
2.8 Other actual and potential health crises .......................................................................................... 51
2.8.1 Tuberculosis (TB) ........................................................................................................................ 51

2.8.2 Avian Influenza ........................................................................................................................... 52
2.8.3 Other acute infections ............................................................................................................... 53

2.8.4 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) .............................................................................. 53
2.8.5 Other diseases ............................................................................................................................ 54

2.8.6 Nurses and natural disasters ...................................................................................................... 55
2.9 Migration and asylum ....................................................................................................................... 55

2.9.1 Nurses, refugees and asylum seekers ........................................................................................ 55
2.9.2 Egypt: Nurse Unable to Fulfill Duty of Care in a Detention Facility ............................................. 58
2.9.3 Nurses and midwives as refugees: transferring skills ................................................................ 60

2.9.4 Migration of nursing and midwifery personnel ......................................................................... 61
2.9.5 Professional Regulation and Responsibilities .................................................................................. 64

2.9.6 Ethical Behavior .......................................................................................................................... 67
2.10 To national nursing and midwifery associations and regulatory bodies ........................................ 69

2.10.1 Professionalism ........................................................................................................................ 69
2.10.2 Security of nurses and midwives ............................................................................................. 70

2.10.3 Responding to human rights abuses ........................................................................................ 72
2.11 Public Health as a Social Choice ...................................................................................................... 73
2.11.1 Socioeconomic Status .............................................................................................................. 74

2 Academic Year 2025/2026