Letters
HIV health tourism
Time to end the political rhetoric on health tourism
BMJ 2015; 350 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h2215 (Published 28 April 2015) Cite this as: BMJ 2015;350:h2215
This article has a correction. Please see:
- Jasmine Schulkind, medical student1,
- Rachael Biggart, medical student1,
- Gemma Bowsher, medical student1
- on behalf of Medsin UK
- 1Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Audrey Emerton Building, Brighton BN2 5BE, UK
- J.Schulkind1{at}uni.bsms.ac.uk
The recent news article that systematically refuted Nigel Farage’s allegations of so called HIV health tourism is commendable.1 It is deeply worrying that as the election debate comes to a climax, false political claims are increasingly made in a vacuum of scientific evidence.
Farage’s deliberate inflammatory comments undermine public health efforts to tackle the rising incidence of HIV infections in the …
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