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Global Bioethics Blog

Promoting reflection on bioethics and research ethics issues in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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National Health Insurance in South Africa put on hold

Nov 19, 2009
South African president Jacob Zuma and American president Barack Obama do not seem to have much in common. Obama went to college, and not just any college: Yale University. Whereas Zuma only attended school until Standard 3 (or Grade 5). Zuma has been...

Delivering vaccines in Africa: some unethical obstacles

Nov 8, 2009
The attention and money thrown at the H1N1 virus seems to grow by the day, even if the numbers of H1N1 related deaths, relative to other causes of mortality (including plain old seasonal flu), are still very modest. People actually die from H1N1, so it...

Let us compare epidemics

Nov 2, 2009
There is always something a bit distasteful about comparing human tragedies, but it is also inevitable. The tsunami in 2004 was terrible, but was it as bad as the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa, which has taken millions of lives over the last...

I pay thy poverty, and not thy will

Oct 25, 2009
In Romeo and Juliet, there is the scene where Romeo goes to an Apothecary to obtain a poison. Juliet is presumed dead; Romeo wishes to go to the Capulet's family tomb, take the poison and join her in a deadly embrace. The Apothecary hesitates:...

HIV treatment: the good news and the bad

Oct 20, 2009
First, the good news: more people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS are receiving treatment than ever before. Over the last 5 years, there seems to have been a 10-fold increase, and now some four million people are taking antiretroviral drugs....


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