Why Africa fears Western medicine

International Herald Tribune by Harriet A. Washington | Jul. 31, 2007 (Opinion)

To Westerners, the repatriation of five nurses and a doctor to Bulgaria last week after more than eight years' imprisonment meant the end of an unsettling ordeal. The medical workers, who in May 2004 were sentenced to death on charges of intentionally infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV, have been freed, and another international incident is averted.

But to many Africans, the accusations, which have been validated by a guilty verdict ... Full Story »

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by NS - Oct. 1, 2008

This article gives a fair analysis of the few in the medical/research profession that have been unethical, the reasonable fear among the African community, and the difficulties of providing healthcare to such an uneven ratio of medical health care workers to patients...especially under such unhygienic circumstances.