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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Donald L. Meaker
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by Donald L. Meaker - Oct. 1, 2008

This is rather like blaming the kidnap victim for having a rich relative. Why not accuse local witch doctors of malpractice? Because they don't have government backers who are willing to use the coerced tax millions to pay off the kidnappers.

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