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CIA Use Of Health Workers In Intelligence Operations Could Hurt Innocent People ; The CIA s vaccination gambit put at risk something very precious -- the integrity of public health programs in Pakistan and around the globe and has also added to the dangers facing nongovernmental organizations NGOs in a world that s increasingly hostile to U.S. aid organizations, opinion writer David Ignatius writes in a Washington Post opinion piece. Noting that attention in the U.S hydro flask usa . has focused on a 33-year prison sentence gi hydro flask ven to Shakil Afridi, a doctor聽convicted of treason for helping the CIA track down Osama bin Laden through a vaccination program, Ignatius says, Afridi and his handlers should reckon with the moral consequences of what they did. Here s the painful truth: Some people may die because they don t get vaccinations, suspecting that immunization is part of a CIA plot. Ignatius states that the number of polio cases is increasing in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria, in part because people believe conspiracy theories about vaccination, and notes that the WHO has warned that if the disease s spre stanley cup deutschland ad cannot be stopped, polio eradication will fail. He concludes, Intelligence operations, by definition, operate in a gray area where the normal legal and ethical rules get fuzzy. But this case makes me wonder if some intelligence tactics, such as using health workers overseas, should be off-limits: If the operations are blown, the consequences will be too Hgbe Hospital Debt Collector Puts The Squeeze On Patients
Thursday, Jul 14 2005Small Businesses in South Africa Should Encourage Employees To Undergo HIV Testing, Editorial SaysNew data estimating that at least 6.29 million people in South Africa are HIV-positive ought to re-emphasize the serious nature of the pandemic, a Business Day editorial says Business Day, 7/12 . A study recently rele yeezy mx ased by the country s Department of Health showed that between 6.29 million and 6.57 million people in South Africa likely are HIV-positive, compared with an estimated 5.6 million people in December 2003. Th adidas samba schuhe e health department s new figures differ from a May study by Statistics South Africa that estimated 4.5 million South Africans are HIV-positive Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 7/12 . The difference between the health department and Statistics SA figures is less significant than the fact that bot adidas samba h numbers are showing marked increases, despite almost a decade of intense public information campaigns, the editorial says. The prospect of testing HIV-positive is frightening, even when people know that the diagnosis is not a death sentence, the editorial says, adding that promoting HIV testing has to have a collective grassroots feel about it and must be firmly felt in the home and on the factory floor, not at the level of political discussion. Therefore, small businesses should find ways to encourage their employees to get tested for HIV because it is in their own interests to tap into the campaign, the editorial says Business Day, 7/1 |
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