Chapter 3 (The judicialization of health care in the Global South) charts the trajectory of the judicialization of health care from the perspective of Global South countries. It shows how the emergence of health rights litigation in the 1990s and early 2000s was bolstered by the global expansion of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and by major constitutional reforms that triggered a period of rights revolutions in South Africa and in several Latin American countries. This chapter also tracks the litigation epidemic in countries like Colombia and Brazil, where the escalation of health rights lawsuits is threatening the financial stability of health systems and the fair allocation of scarce health resources.
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Front Matter
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Part I: The transformations of the right to health
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Part II: Local maladies: the epidemic of the right to health in Brazil and Colombia
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Back Matter
