WHO defines health inequities as “systematic differences in the health status of different population groups. These inequities have significant social and economic costs both to individuals and societies”.1 By definition, health inequities are unfair and potentially avoidable with the implementation of adequate policies.1 Despite the effect of human T-cell leukaemia virus type-1 (HTLV-1) on patients' lives and the number of affected individuals (minimum 5–10 million worldwide), health policies worldwide targeting HTLV-1 have either advanced slowly or not at all since the discovery of the virus in 1980.
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