Litigating the Right to Health in Kenya

A lecture by Allan Maleche
This brown bag discussion featured Allan Maleche on the right to health litigation and cases before Kenya’s courts.
Allan Maleche is Executive Director of the Kenyan Legal and Ethical Issues Network on HIV & AIDS (KELIN) and currently a Visiting Scholar at the FXB Center for Human Rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. As a human rights lawyer and executive director of KELIN, a human rights organization that works to protect and promote human rights related to HIV in East Africa, Maleche has achieved notable successes in using the law to shape health policy in Kenya and to help Kenyans realize the right to health through education, litigation, and advocacy. Under Maleche’s leadership, KELIN recently brought a case challenging the forced and coerced sterilization of HIV+ pregnant women to the Kenyan High Court. While at Harvard FXB, Allan will be working on a case study of the impact of a Colombian Constitutional Court decision on that country’s health care system, as well on as a NORADfunded project, “Operationalizing the Right to Health in Health Service Delivery.”
For more information, contact the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School at 617-495-9362.
Sponsored by the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School (HRP), the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, and the Harvard African Law Association (HALA).