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Social responsibility and global health: lessons from the Rio Olympics Zika controversy
Fernando Hellmann1, Luzilena de Souza Prudêncio Rohde2, Marta Verdi3
1Professor, Department of Public Health, Federal University of Santa Catarina, SC, Brazil., fernando.hellmann@ufsc.br.
Abstract:
The outbreak of Zika virus infection in the Americas and its possible association with microcephaly raised several concerns among global health authorities regarding the organisation of the Olympic and Paralympic Games scheduled for August and September 2016, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It generated an international controversy over the continuation of the Games with debates on the ethical principle of social responsibility. Based on the principles of social responsibility and health in the Universal Declaration of Bioethics and Human Rights, the present comment ponders on the application of such principles in the context of mega-events and global health.
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