PLoS ONE 9(1): e87262. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0087262
Migration & health position paper series
Cross-cutting health themes
Tuberculosis, Migration and human mobility
Rev Esp Sanid Penit 2012; 14: 11-16 11
Review
S Afr Med J 2014;104(3):174-177. DOI: 10.7196/SAMJ.7968
Healthcare Waste Management Toolkit for Global Fund Practitioners and Policy Makers. Part B
The Integrated Management of Adolescent/Adult Illness (IMAI) approach
Reproduced by CHAL (Chrisitan Health Association Liberia) 3 October 2014
Knowledge based upon a descriptive literature review of applied research
Euro Surveill. 2015 Mar 26;20(12). pii: 21073.
Humanitarian emergencies result in a breakdown of critical health-care services and often make vulnerable communities dependent on external agencies for care. In resource-constrained settings, this may occur against a backdrop of extreme poverty, malnutrition, insecurity, low literacy and poor infra...structure. Under these circumstances, providing food, water and shelter and limiting communicable disease outbreaks become primary concerns. Where effective and safe vaccines are available to mitigate the risk of disease outbreaks, their potential deployment is a key consideration in meeting emergency health needs. Ethical considerations are crucial when deciding on vaccine deployment. Allocation of vaccines in short supply, target groups, delivery strategies, surveillance and research during acute humanitarian emergencies all involve ethical considerations that often arise from the tension between individual and common good. The authors lay out the ethical issues that policy-makers need to bear in mind when considering the deployment of mass vaccination during humanitarian emergencies, including beneficence (duty of care and the rule of rescue), non-maleficence, autonomy and consent, and distributive and procedural justice
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