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Other statutory protections exist in Australia. See, for example, the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth) and the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld).
The Constitution of India is available at http://lawmin.nic.in/coi/coiason29july08.pdf.
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The views expressed by the authors in the section “TB Management in India: Public Health, Ethics, Social Considerations, and Human Rights” are their own. These authors thank Jocalyn Clark, Peter A. Singer, Shane Green, Peter Small, Madhukar Pai, Anjali Nayyar, Sukriti Chauhan, David Gold, and Renaud Boulanger for their comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript.
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Jerome Amir Singh and Anant Bhan drafted the manuscript. Ross E. Upshur provided key input thereon.
Funding
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the primary source of funding for the project related to “TB Management in India.” Jerome Singh also receives support from the Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa, which forms part of the Comprehensive International Program of Research on AIDS funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease at the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Ross E. Upshur also receives support from the University of Toronto’s Joint Centre for Bioethics through a Canada Research Chair and from the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. The funders had no role in the decision to submit or in the preparation of this paper, other than providing comments on earlier drafts.
Conflict of interest
The authors associated with the section “TB Management in India” work on the ESC2 Program in Global Health, which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Earlier versions of the manuscript were circulated to program officers of the funder, who had an opportunity to provide comments.
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Coggon, J., Madden, B., Cockburn, T. et al. Organ Donation, Discrimination After Death, Anti-Vaccination Sentiments, and Tuberculosis Management. Bioethical Inquiry 9, 125–133 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-012-9370-2
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