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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Gloria Oladipo

US conservatives sue to dismantle Native Hawaiian healthcare scholarships

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The E Barrett Prettyman court building in Washington DC, where the lawsuit was filed. Photograph: Westy72/Getty Images

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 underserved 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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