Certain forms of abuses in health-care settings that may cross a threshold of mistreatment that is tantamount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 2013, para. 52
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Many countries fail to make adequate arrangements for the supply of these medications. Low- and middle-income countries account for 6 per cent of morphine use worldwide while having about half of all cancer patients and 95 per cent of all new HIV infections. Thirty-two countries in Africa have almost no morphine available at all. In the United States, over a third of patients are not adequately treated for pain. In France, a study found that doctors underestimated pain in over half of their AIDS patients. In India, more than half of the country's regional cancer centres do not have morphine or doctors trained in using it. This is despite the fact that 70 per cent or more of their patients have advanced cancer and are likely to require pain treatment.
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Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment