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Treating for the common good: a proposed ethical framework
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To reduce the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Granich et al. (2009) have proposed a new strategy for universal voluntary HIV testing immediately followed by antiretroviral therapy. Although this proposal is likely to benefit the partners of those affected and thus promote health, it is by no means clear that it benefits the infected people themselves and indeed it may be harmful. Since the proposal involves an intervention that is not clinically indicated, it falls foul of t...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Public Health Ethics Journal website
- Volume:
- 3
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 193-198
- Publication date:
- 2010-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1754-9981
- ISSN:
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1754-9973
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- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:6018
- Deposit date:
- 2012-01-13
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- Copyright holder:
- H W Jaffe & T Hope
- Copyright date:
- 2010
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