With respect to any residual
occurrence of coercive measures,
the extent to which eradication
would require them more than
would elimination and control
would be a factor that counts
against eradication from the
standpoint of the core social justice
framework; this is because of the
adverse impacts of coercion on
agency, association, and respect. In
cases in which coercive measures
would be necessary to achieve
eradication, intrapersonal or in
terpersonal trade-offs between
protecting agency, association, and
respect (by limiting public health
intervention) and more com
pletely averting and alleviating
clusters of disadvantage (by re
ducing long-term residual disease
incidence) may be inevitable. Al
though our proposed method of
ethical analysis in EICs would not
in itself resolve such trade-offs,
it would at least help people to
identify, clarify, and deliberate
about them.