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Indian Journal of Medical Ethics Vol IV No 2 April-June 2007 (incorporating Issues in Medical Ethics, cumulative Vol XV No II)
EDITORIAL
Asia's organ farms
Aamir Jafarey, George Thomas, Aasim Ahmad, Sandhya Srinivasan
FROM THE PRESS
ARTICLES
Drug promotional practices in Mumbai: a qualitative study
Nobhojit Roy, Neha Madhiwalla, Sanjay A Pai
Restructuring medical education Padmaja Samant Mavani
COMMENTARY
Start sensitising medical students
Karuna Ramesh
The importance of patient privacy during a clinical examination Shailaja Tetali
HIV/AIDS legislation: an opportunity for health care reform Vivek Divan, Kajal Bhardwaj
Working towards ethical organ transplants Sunil Shroff
INTERNATIONAL ETHICS
Deceased-donor kidney transplantation in Iran: trends, barriers and opportunities
Behzad Einollahi, Mohammad-Hossein Nourbala, Saeid Bahaeloo-Horeh, Shervin Assari, Mahboob Lessan-Pezeshki, Naser Simforoosh
The importance of "throwing money at" the problem of global health Michael J Selgelid
CASE STUDY
Ethics in nutrition intervention research
Response: the study served no purpose V Raman Kutty
Response: an  extremely cynical study Veena Shatrugna
Response: the study was unjustified and fallacious GD Ravindran
Response: research ethics involves continuous learning Richard A Cash
DOCUMENT
The World Medical Association statement on HIV/AIDS and the medical profession
SELECTED SUMMARY
The social hierarchy of health
Bashir Mamdani
BOOK REVIEWS
Outsourcing clinical trials
Sanjay A Pai
The dawn of a new dysgenics Mohan Rao
FILM REVIEW
Taking on the taboos
Harshal Pandve

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The World Social Forum statement on the Global Polio Eradication Initiative

The Second World Social Forum on Health, January 20-25, 2007, condemns the World Health Organisation's lack of transparency in acknowledging the failure of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative strategy and instead

  • identifying a few low-income countries as scapegoats;
  • subjecting the children of these countries to an unprecedentedly high number of Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) through the pulse polio rounds with no concern for its negative impact, and
  • using monovalent OPV, an untested vaccine, without informed consent.

While the WSF on Health acknowledges the place of OPV in the overall immunisation programme as part of integrated public health services, the strategy of intensive pulse polio rounds has had a detrimental fragmenting effect on the already weak public health systems in low-income countries.

We demand an independent review of the Global Polio Eradication strategy with due consideration to the relevant epidemiology and different countries' health care priorities.

Medico Friend Circle (India)

Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (India)

People's Health Movement and

World Social Forum on Health


January 24, 2007

Nairobi, Kenya

PUBLISHING DETAILS
Form IV (See Rule 8)

  1. Place of Publication : Forum for Medical Ethics Society, 0-18, "Bhavna",
    Veer Savarkar Marg, Prabhadevi Mumbai 400025.
  2. Periodicity : Quarterly
  3. Printer's name : Dr Arun Bal Nationality : Indian Address : Flat 6, Mallika, Makrand Housing Society, VS Marg, Mahim, Mumbai 400 016.
  4. Publisher's name : Dr Arun Bal Nationality : Indian Address : Flat 6, Mallika, Makrand Housing Society, SVS Marg, Mahim, Mumbai 400 016.
  5. Editor's name : Dr George Thomas Nationality : Indian Address:  114J Rostrevor Garden, Teynampet, Chennai 600 018




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