Why Africa fears Western medicine

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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Argie Tejada Segor
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by Argie Tejada Segor - Oct. 1, 2008

Great story. I know of cases in Puerto Rico where women were sterilized or used by contraception researchers without their knowledge. This is the result of the colonial mentality.

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