Doctors can help human trafficking victims: reports

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Doctors can help human trafficking victims: reports

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Healthcare professionals can play a role in addressing human trafficking and sexual exploitation, according to two new reports. Doctors and researchers write in JAMA Pediatrics that it’s up to a collection of people and agencies to advance and strengthen U.S. efforts to prevent, identify and respond to commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors. “Human trafficking is a significant worldwide dilemma,” Dr. Aimee Grace said. “In the U.S., healthcare providers can do something about it.” Grace, of Children’s National Health System in Washington, D.C., is the lead author of one of the reports addressing the integration of lessons about human trafficking into medical education and training.

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