In my initial search for worthy news in health care, I came upon several articles on DNA-Prokids and wanted to share some information on the work being done to stop human trafficking .
Professor Jose A. Lorente, PhD at the University of Granada-Spain is utilizing investigative genetics and information technology to assist in the fight against human trafficking. Dr. Lorente's project developed from a concern he had for the trapped and neglected children in many foreign countries. In 2004, he started a genetic indentification protocol and data base to assist in identifiying trafficked and missing children and their families. The object of the program as stated is to impede human traffic via identification of victims, to reunite victims with family and to investigate origins, routes and means of trafficking to apprehend and prosecute traffickers. The program was piloted in Guatemala, Mexico, Indonesia and the Phillipines and was extremely successful.
Dr. Lorente is now collaborating with Arthur Eisenberg, PhD professor and chair of Forensic and Investigative Genetics at the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification. They are hoping to enlist each nation to establish a national data base and link it to a single world wide data base for missing, abducted and homeless children. The Life Technology Foundation has awarded DNA-Prokids $500,000 to fund the development of a new DNA collection kit for easier distribution to developing countries, to establish the data base and to educate countries how DNA sequencing can be used to solve crimes.
That is good news in health care.
Source: Medical News Today, Life Technology
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