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one person or on easing suffering for many? Should we insist on people having vaccinations to prevent them from geƒing a disease, thereby protecting the public, or should everyone be free to choose whether or not to be vaccinated? Does someone who has caused their own ill health deserve the same free treatment as another who could not help their condition?

A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE Some people live in such appalling conditions that they have no chance for good health in the long run. Is this a local or international responsibility? In the developing world, standards of health and medical care are much lower than in the developed world. Millions of people die because of starvation, polluted water supplies,

A doctor from the United Nations vaccinates a woman and child against tetanus during a mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In many parts of Africa, lack of food and safe drinking water leads to widespread ill health.

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