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14 year old sickle cell anaemia patient faces deportation - 23/01/08 PDF Print E-mail
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Hunger strike for asylum mother

A mother of six children who is facing deportation to Nigeria is to stage a six-day hunger strike in protest at the decision to send her back.
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The Independent : Doctors rebel over plan to prevent treatment for failed asylum-seekers - 16/01/08 PDF Print E-mail
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Please see related item "Government proposals to withdraw free primary healthcare" with Medical Justice and Medact campaigns.


The Independent - Robert Verkaik, Law Editor, published: 16 January 2008

Ministers face a doctors' rebellion over plans to deny failed asylum-seekers the right to free health care while they are in Britain.

In an unprecedented move, 275 GPs have said they will defy any new law by carrying on freely treating refugees, many of whom are torture victims, children and pregnant women.

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The Lancet : Let’s speak up to support access to health care for all migrants ! - 15/01/08 PDF Print E-mail
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Please see related item "Government proposals to withdraw free primary healthcare" with Medical Justice and Medact campaigns.


The Lancet, January 15th 2008
The global health focus of next General Assembly of the International Federation of Medical Students Association (IFMSA) in March is immigration health. Here is what they say about it on their website:  “Our responsibility as future physicians is to emphasize that every woman, man, youth and child has the human right to the highest attainable standard of health wherever he is or he comes from. We can not claim that we are improving health programs if the incidence of diseases is still different between the regular citizens and the immigrants.”
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 16 January 2008 )
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Guardian : 'Kafkaesque' plight of Algerians who want to be deported - 14/01/08 PDF Print E-mail
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The Medical Justice Habeus Corpus project has effectively now been launched with the case of these Algerians.
 
Four Algerians who have been detained for between 14 and 18 months pending deportation - even though they want to return home - will invoke the ancient law of habeas corpus to seek their freedom in a high court test case next week.
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 16 January 2008 )
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BMJ : HIV Resistance in Immigration Detainees - 05/11/07 PDF Print E-mail
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Dr Edward Costar, F1 Doctor, Kent & Canterbury Hospital, Canterbury, CT1 3NG,
Dr Jillian Pritchard, Consultant in Genitourinary Medicine, St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey
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