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US conservatives sue to dismantle Native Hawaiian healthcare scholarships

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US conservatives sue to dismantle Native Hawaiian healthcare scholarships
Do No Harm activist group alleges ‘racial discrimination’ in program designed to support under-served communities
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Do No Harm activist group alleges ‘racial discrimination’ in program designed to support under-served communities

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Conservative campaigners are targeting a decades-old federal scholarship program designed to provide Native Hawaiian students with funding to pursue healthcare careers and place practitioners in the state’s most medically under-served communities.

Do No Harm, a Virginia-based advocacy group for healthcare clinicians “focused on keeping identity politics out of medical education, research, and clinical practice”, filed its federal lawsuit challenging the US health department’s Native Hawaiian Health Scholarship Program (NHHSP) last week.

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Source: Guardian - World News

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