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cord-296863-xu0h92ac	Berlinguer, Giovanni	Bioethics, health, and inequality	2004-09-17		.txt	text/plain	4325	191	49	The International Bioethics Committee (IBC) of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) recommended that "PGD be limited to medical indications. The convention includes articles on the rights of the patient, on equitable access to health care, on respect for private life, on non-discrimination on genetic grounds, on transplants, and on prohibition of financial gains "from the human body and his parts as such" (article 21). The main difficulty in practising moral principles concerning human dignity and equity in health is that in the past 15 years a singular ethics (and a singular policy) prevailed in the world, which resulted in overturning the health paradigms that had successfully guided public health and health services for one century. As far as ethics is concerned, the difference is that WHO does have a moral obligation towards people's health, whereas the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank do not.	./cache/cord-296863-xu0h92ac.txt	./txt/cord-296863-xu0h92ac.txt