Concern from Argentina: when anti-science becomes public policy

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Source: BMJ

Original: http://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj.s517.short?rss=1...

Published: 2026-03-26T04:16:17-07:00

Yamey and Shaffer discuss how the Trump administration is dismantling US public health. History shows that US health policy affects other countries, including Argentina. In Argentina, some decisions and approaches from the US are uncritically copied. Argentina withdrew from the World Health Organization, imitating US policy. The country faces a lack of vaccinations, a measles outbreak, a large increase in whooping cough cases with deaths, and a resurgence of hepatitis A. As part of an anarcho-capitalist social experiment, Argentina is dismantling its public health system. National programs are being weakened and closed, and the state is relinquishing its regulatory responsibilities.