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In June 2008, Ban Ki Moon called on all UN member states to end restrictions on travel based on HIV status, saying "60 years after the Universal Declaration on Human Rights] it is shocking that there should still be discrimination against those at high risk, such as men who have sex with men, or stigma attached to individuals living with HIV." At the time twelve countries-- Armenia, Colombia, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Sudan, the United States and Yemen -- barred en
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is mandating that airline passengers from a few countries will be selected for special screening. From the Washington Post:
It's been a little over a week since my last post on the crazed reaction to a mundane executive order issued by President Obama regarding certain diplomatic privileges that will be extended to the International Criminal Police Organization--Interpol.
I am not going to write you a year end round-up for 2009. Other people are doing an excellent job of that. So, instead, I offer you the best global health year-end round-ups of the year – a round-up of the round-ups: