From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ted Schrecker</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tschrecker@gmail.com">tschrecker@gmail.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:18.75pt;background:#fbfbfb"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#115258" lang="EN-GB">Global health and national borders: the ethics of foreign aid in a time of financial crisis<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.3in;background:#fbfbfb"><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#474848" lang="EN-GB">Mira Johri</span></b>^{<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#474848" lang="EN-GB"></span>}<span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#474848" lang="EN-GB">, <b>Ryoa Chung</b></span>^{<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#474848" lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/8/1/19/#ins2" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2149a0"></span></a></span>}<span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#474848" lang="EN-GB">, <b>Angus Dawson</b></span>^{<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#474848" lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/8/1/19/#ins3" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2149a0"></span></a></span>}<span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#474848" lang="EN-GB"> and <b>Ted Schrecker</b></span>^{<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#474848" lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/8/1/19/#ins4" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2149a0"></span></a></span>}<span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#474848" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.3in;margin-left:49.2pt;background:#fbfbfb"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-GB"><span>·</span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">* Corresponding author: Mira Johri <a href="mailto:mira.johri@umontreal.ca" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2149a0">mira.johri@umontreal.ca</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#474848" lang="EN-GB">Globalization and Health</span></i><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#474848" lang="EN-GB"> 2012, <b>8</b>:19 doi:10.1186/1744-8603-8-19  <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.3in;background:#fbfbfb"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#474848" lang="EN-GB">[This is an <b>Open Access</b> article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2149a0">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0</span></a>), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.] <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#fbfbfb"><a name="1393e4f6e337e124_abs"></a><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#115258" lang="EN-GB"></span></b></p><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#474848" lang="EN-GB">The competition between national priorities and foreign aid commitments raises important ethical questions for donor nations. This paper aims to foster individual reflection and public debate on donor responsibilities for global health.</span><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#194d98" lang="EN-GB"></span></b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#474848" lang="EN-GB"><br>
Responsibilities to provide international assistance were seen as significant and place limits on the scope of acceptable national autonomy. Among the range of potential aid foci, interventions for health enjoyed consistent prominence. There are important ethical responsibilities to support initiatives to improve the health of the worst off worldwide, but offer different rationales for intervention and suggest different implicit limits on responsibilities.</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(251,251,251)">
<br><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:rgb(25,77,152)" lang="EN-GB"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#fbfbfb"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#194d98" lang="EN-GB"></span></b><br>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.3in;background:#fbfbfb"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#474848" lang="EN-GB">There are important reasons to support many current initiatives to promote global health. Ethical argumentation can complement pragmatic reasons to support global health interventions and provide an important foundation to strengthen collective action.</span></p>
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