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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Harm is harm: the impact of electronic cigarettes on health.

Tobacco use continues to be one of the main risk factors for disease, disability, and preventable death in Argentina. Meanwhile, the tobacco industry is shifting its strategy toward new products—such as electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco…
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New threat to the Labeling Law in Argentina

Within the framework of World Food Day, civil society organizations are warning about another potential setback to the Law for the Promotion of Healthy Eating, stemming from ongoing negotiations within MERCOSUR. In April of this year, the Common…
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From Fundeps, Fundación Sanar and Anfibia Podcast, we launch the second season of “Exceso de Todo.”

Narrated by journalist Soledad Barruti, this new season once again focuses on the right to healthy food, in a context of setbacks to the Front-of-Pack Labelling Law and a deepening food emergency. It also dares to look ahead  to imagine the…
Presentación del proyecto de Ley de Alimentación Saludable en la Legislatura de Córdoba
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A law for Córdoba to take the lead on healthy eating

Fundeps and the Córdoba Association of Nutritionists have presented a bill to expand and ensure the full implementation of the Food Labeling Law in Córdoba. Among other measures, it establishes the prioritization of healthy foods in kiosks,…

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