Medical Justice Is Open
posted: 23/12/2010
During Christmas and New Year, (Thursday 23 December to Sunday 2 January, inclusive) Medical Justice staff will provide emergency cover of their phone, fax and email. Medical Justice campaign for decent healthcare for immigration detainees.
Contacting Medical Justice over Christmas and New Year
Referrals
General inquiries
Phone 0207 561 7498
Fax 08450 529370
They may not be able to do very much and they ask people to only contact them for help where this cannot wait until they reopen for normal service on 3rd January.
They are very grateful to the doctors and lawyers who have very generously volunteered to support staff and detainees during the holiday period.
Medical Justice
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Investigate HIV and Immigration Detention
posted: 20/11/2009
Medical Justice want a volunteer researcher for its Investigation into the treatment of people with HIV in detention. They want to produce a report that
- Explores the healthcare available for detainees with HIV
- Analyses the experiences of detainees with HIV
- Investigates whether the guidelines for treating detainees with HIV work.
Detailed case studies based on the experiences of detainees and ex-detainees with HIV will be used including examples from Medical Justice.
Apply by 24th November 2009
Interviews 1st December 2009
Job details Role description, person specification, and application details from Medical Justice
About Medical Justice
Medical Justice is a network of volunteers who expose and challenge medical abuse in immigration detention. Their volunteers include ex-detainees, doctors, lawyers and other experts. They have no formal funding and no paid staff; they rely on private donations and unpaid work by members. Medical Justice is not a charity, nor is it government-funded.
Some people with HIV recently helped by Medical Justice
Three of four women who had been receiving anti-retroviral drugs in the community, had an unplanned disruption to their treatment in detention, because of problems in arranging appropriate and timely hospital care. Some detainees were not given the results of their positive HIV test until taken to the airport for deportation. Some rape survivors have been denied an HIV test.
Medical Justice 86 Durham Road London N7 7DT 0207 561 7498 email
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