BMJ 1998;316:1905 ( 20 June )

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WMA urges national medical associations to ensure that economic sanctions respect agreed exemptions

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EDITOR---Redgrave and Waller raised the important issue of the effect of economic sanctions on the health and nutrition of the Cuban population.1 The report from the American Association for World Health on the impact of the United States' embargo was brought to the attention of the international committee of the BMA shortly after its publication in March 1997.2 As a result of the concerns raised by the whole issue, the matter was taken by the BMA to the council of the World Medical Association in Paris in April last year. After consultation with other national medical associations the BMA submitted a resolution on economic embargoes on health, which was passed unanimously at the 49th general assembly of the World Medical Association in Hamburg, Germany, in November 1997. The succinct resolution states:

"Recognising that all people have the right to the preservation of health and that the Geneva Convention (article . . . [Full text of this article]
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