tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: " Libya, HIV, and open communication"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học quốc tế cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Libya, HIV, and open communication. | Retrovirology BioMed Central Editorial Libya HIV and open communication Kuan-Teh Jeang Address The National Institutes of Health Bethesda MD USA Email Kuan-Teh Jeang - kjeang@ Corresponding author Open Access Published 28 December 2006 Received 27 December 2006 Accepted 28 December 2006 Retrovirology 2006 3 99 doi l 742-4690-3-99 This article is available from http content 3 1 99 2006 Jeang licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract This year-end editorial discusses several points including the recent Libyan verdict sentencing five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death for allegedly infecting 426 children with HIV. It also comments on the role played by open communication for bridging cultural misunderstandings and summarizes briefly Retrovirology s progress in 2006. Libya once again More than two years ago in September 2004 I wrote an editorial entitled Mohmmar Qadaffi open access and retrovirology 1 . At that time I did not imagine that the topic of Libya would ever emerge in another of my editorials. Yet today I again comment on Libya a country in which I grew up from the ages of five to twelve driven by a recent verdict sentencing five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death for allegedly infecting 426 children with HIV. The Libyan-HIV case began in 1998 when Bulgarian nurses arrived to work in a Benghazi children s hospital. Shortly thereafter many children in the hospital became seropositive for HIV. What caused these happenings is being contested. The Libyan government and distressed family members say that the Bulgarian medical workers and the Palestinian doctor are causal. Others argue that the cause is less nefarious and is likely .