Frustrations of a Longtime Global Issues Activist Comment on "Ensuring Global Health Equity in a Post-pandemic Economy".

Labonté's first commentary concluded with what I wholeheartedly agree, namely that "we need an activist public health movement to ensure there is sufficient political will to adopt them." In their follow-up commentary, Moers and colleagues looked at things from a slightly different angle saying that to achieve equity will need radical changes in economic thinking and policies; they added that advocates needed to be strategic about framing and use hope-based communication and develop attractive and convincing narratives: "By doing so, hopefully we can bring these messages across to larger groups of people." Well, I think that, together with many others, I have been strategic and radical, but only to accumulate a large bag of disappointments and broken hopes in trying to 'bring the message across.

Nurses, Public Health, and Human Rights: Their Role as Claim Holders, Duty Bearers, and Promoters of Social Change.

As Duty Bearers, nurses are prime guardians, not only of the right to life (as stated in Article 3 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "Everyone has the human right to life, liberty, and security") but also the rights of women, the rights of children, and the rights of people in minority groups, among others. As Claim Holders, nurses have substantial claims towards labor rights, economic rights, maternity rights, and social protection rights, among others. This article presents systematic information about social determinants of health and explores nurses' inherent obligations in this domain, suggesting that nursing education must innovate, adding a human rights component to address the role of Promoters of Social Change.

Vietnam's Containment of COVID-19: Why the Coronavirus Mortality has Been So Low.

The successful experience of Vietnam, with a population of almost 100 million, in handling the COVID pandemic from March to November 2020 is presented as a case study. It is posited that lessons learned apply to every other country-even at this late stage of the epidemic. Detailed aspects of detection, containment, testing, contact tracing, quarantining, targeted lockdowns, public health messaging, and travel and mobility restriction policies are discussed.

Applying the Human Rights Framework Is Not "a" Development Alternative; It Is "the" Road to an Alternative Development Process (People's Health Movement Latin America).

Historically, political elites adopted the idea of human rights if, and only if, it could foster their interests. Today, it is thus public interest civil society organizations, and not states, that are left to contribute most to the protection of and the struggle for human rights. Despite human rights being enshrined in constitutions, nowadays they can primarily be effectively claimed by those with access to the courts and by the press, i.