jonsastar Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Do you think it's ok to make immigrants and asylum seekers take an AIDS and TB test, plus be screened for other viruses, deseases? Apparently 50% of tubercolosis cases in britain today (probably more than that)can be acounted for by people born abroad who have arrived in the country in the last ten years. In the case of AIDs 3 out of four heterosexuals diagnosed with the desease last year had come from Africa. Does this make screening a must for the protection of the country or is it an extremist, unethical and unworkable practice? Do you class screening as rascist as it would target mainly people from African countries that are known to have these problems? My views are that all immigrants and asylum seekers should be screened for infectious deseases after all I dont want Aids or Tuberculosis (or any other desease) and if we let these deseases in the country they are going to infect us or some one we know eventually. PLEASE TRY TO REFRAIN FROM GETTING INTO A RASCIST OR ANTI RASCIST SLANGING MATCH AS IT WILL ONLY SERVE TO GET THE THREAD LIFTED. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squeaker Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 I agree with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royjames Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Lol I bet this subject gets them going again,I for one want all those who enter this country to be screened,As far as im aware the tory party policy is NOT to test asylum seekers so it's a half hearted measure which wont work. Either you test EVERYONE or none,to test one group without the rest does indeed leave you open the racist tag. As usual with the Conservative party you only get half measures,when its total testing thats needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phanerothyme Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Originally posted by royjames Lol I bet this subject gets them going again,I for one want all those who enter this country to be screened,As far as im aware the tory party policy is NOT to test asylum seekers so it's a half hearted measure which wont work. Either you test EVERYONE or none,to test one group without the rest does indeed leave you open the racist tag. As usual with the Conservative party you only get half measures,when its total testing thats needed. I think you can reaosnably test for TB for any travelling travelling from or through an infected country without a vaccination certificate. AIDS is a trickier matter altogether for unrelated reasons. But in that case, since their is no vaccine - all travellers would need to be tested on arrival, and on re-entry after holidays, to stand any chance of preventing the 'import' of new infectious cases Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royjames Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Yes I agree you will need to test the tourists as well as the rest,like I said either do it right or forget it. I wonder if this will be put into the (OTHER PLACE) is this political or not?? Good subject either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonsastar Posted February 16, 2005 Author Share Posted February 16, 2005 Testing people who are coming back from holidays isnt really needed, as you cannot stop a british citizens coming home because they have aids, that doesnt make sense really does it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheffexpat Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Well . most countries have some sort of medical test before they'll give you a work permit. Years ago I went to work in Saudi and we all had to have a full medical beforehand. On top of that we had to go to this place on Victoria Street in London to get verification that our doctors were bona fide doctors. After about a week in Saudi we had to have another blood test and an X-ray---presumably they didn't quite trust the U.K.doctors. I can't understand why we haven't had a system in operation here all this time. Are the authorities so thick that they've only just realised that there's more illness and disease in developing countries than in Western Europe? Perhaps they didn't like to ask . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Screen everyone who enters the country? Good idea but It isn't feasablle to do this. This Tory initiative is so the Daily Mail it's untrue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoop Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 I don't know the figures, but isn't it the case that the large majority of newly diagnosed hiv cases are in immigrants. What would we do with all these people, refuse entry? I can see that there are huge financial implications for allowing people who are HIV to migrate here, but ethically, do we just send people back toa place where they wouldn't be able to access treatmet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonsastar Posted February 16, 2005 Author Share Posted February 16, 2005 Originally posted by sheffexpat I can't understand why we haven't had a system in operation here all this time. Are the authorities so thick that they've only just realised that there's more illness and disease in developing countries than in Western Europe? So it would seem, it does make you wonder doesn't it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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