On World Health Day 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) emphasised that access to health is a human right that must be available to people universally. While the strong inter-relationship between health and human rights is well recognised, stakeholders including the WHO recognise that more needs to be done to translate such universal claims into a lived reality of equitable and widely-accessible healthcare. Even more worryingly, widespread backsliding on human rights and the persistence of intersecting crises create concerns about negative fallouts for global health.

On the occasion of the Human Rights Platform’s Annual Conference taking place on November 5th at the Geneva Graduate Institute, the Global Health Centre’s International Geneva Global Health Platform is pleased to invite Helena Nygren-Krug, Senior Advisor at UNAIDS, for a two-part podcast where we unpack the relationship between health and human rights and assess the challenges but also opportunities of this relationship in a changing global context.

In this second episode of our two-part podcast, we reflect on the mutual impacts of health and human rights in the context of current crises and their role in multilateral governance negotiations.