Anti-doping and medical privacy

The right to privacy is a fundamental human entitlement that is recognized in the UN Declaration of Human Rights and underpins the essence of human dignity¹. However, such rights are never absolute and in the context of anti-doping in sports, the use of biological passports and whereabouts notifications have increasingly seen athletes’ privacy being infringed upon. The UK Anti-Doping’s (UKAD) agreement with NHS Protect could potentially be the most recent incursion on that privilege.

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• Peter Sonksen

  • 20 July 2013 at 09:49
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  Very good article and emphasises the conflicting interests very well. As a retired endocrinologist involved with UKAD I feel the privacy of the medical record should be sacrosanct.

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