Health

We promote public health policies from a human rights perspective. From pre-existing bases, we work to improve the protection of health and proper nutrition rights from a comprehensive approach.

We focus on vulnerable groups, like children, teenagers, elderly people and whoever find themselves in an unfavorable socio-economic situation.

Work focus

  • Tobacco control
  • Healthy food promotion
  • Elderly rights

Main activities

  • Advocacy for the Law of Healthy Food Promotion (Front Labeling Law) and its effective implementation at a national and subnational level.
  • Advocacy for updating the regulation of trans fats in the Argentine Food Code.
  • Monitoring marketing strategies and the tobacco industry interference, focused on achieving regulations with better tobacco control standards.
  • Report and comment presentation to human rights organizations, with special focus in chronic non-communicable diseases prevention.
  • Awareness and information actions promoting the understanding of health as a fundamental human right and the need for a comprehensive approach.
  • Analysis of national public policies and care systems for the elderly, from a gender perspective rights approach.

Area Coordinator › Maga Ailén Merlo Vijarra

Maga is a lawyer from the Faculty of Law of the National University of Córdoba (UNC). She has a master’s degree in Procedural Law from the Siglo 21 Business University. She has participated in numerous courses, seminars and conferences linked to the area of ​​public policies, human rights and management of social projects. She has been part of various organizations aimed at meeting the demands of groups in vulnerable situations.

She has been part of Fundeps since 2016 and is currently the Coordinator of the Health Area.

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The law in the face of health challenges in Latin America

On Wednesday, April 10, we carried out the conference “The right to face the health challenges in Latin America” at the Bar Association of the Province of Córdoba. “Below, we offer a google translate version of the original article…
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We present a report to the IACHR on the rights of the elderly

In the framework of the public consultation carried out by the Unit on the Rights of Older Persons of the IACHR, Fundeps, together with other civil society organizations, presented a report on national systems for the protection of the rights…
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Healthy school environments: a key policy in the fight against childhood overweight and obesity

The Ministry of Health of the Nation published a document that condenses a series of recommendations for the implementation of policies to prevent overweight and obesity in children and adolescents (NNyA) in educational institutions. It is…
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At the Cosquin Rock violates the regulations on tobacco advertising

In a survey conducted by FUNDEPS and ALIAR in the well-known music festival "Cosquín Rock", actions were detected that violate the national and provincial regulations on the advertising of tobacco products. “Below, we offer a google translate…

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