PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Cole, Phillip
TI  - Human rights and the national interest: migrants, healthcare and social justice
AID  - 10.1136/jme.2005.014829
DP  - 2007 May 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 269--272
VI  - 33
IP  - 5
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/33/5/269.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/33/5/269.full
SO  - J Med Ethics2007 May 01; 33
AB  - The UK government has recently taken steps to exclude certain groups of migrants from free treatment under the National Health Service, most controversially from treatment for HIV. Whether this discrimination can have any coherent ethical basis is questioned in this paper. The exclusion of migrants of any status from any welfare system cannot be ethically justified because the distinction between citizens and migrants cannot be an ethical one.