Cablegate: Assessment of Nih Project Foreign Policy
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RR RUEHWEB
DE RUEHLP #2979 3052022
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R 012022Z NOV 06
FM AMEMBASSY LA PAZ
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 1177
UNCLAS LA PAZ 002979
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STATE FOR WHA/AND LPETRONI
STATE PLEASE PASS TO HHS/NIH/FIC FOR SGRABILL
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SUBJECT: ASSESSMENT OF NIH PROJECT FOREIGN POLICY
IMPLICATIONS
REF: STATE 21247
1. (U) Post sees no negative foreign policy implications of
the National Institutes of Health (NIH) project described in
reftel. Post provides a positive recommendation pending
human subject approval, on the understanding that NIH
researchers have received concurrence from related U.S. and
Bolivian research boards.
URS