The relationship between Westerners and Africa has long been conflicted and complicated. Frequently exploitative, it is also just as often propelled by an almost irresistible urge to ‘do good’....
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Author: Krotz, LarrySummary: -
Author: Krotz, LarrySummary:In 1979, Dr. Allan Ronald, a specialist in infectious diseases from Canada, and Dr. Herbert Nsanze, head of medical microbiology at University of Nairobi, met through the World Health Organization...
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Author: Krotz, LarrySummary:
Indigenous youngsters from two communities in northern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario were showing up not with with what looked like type 2 diabetes. Over the next few decades more children...
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Diagnosing the legacy: the discovery, research, and treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in Indigenous youth
Author: Krotz, Larry, Desjarlais, Frances, Dean, Heather, McGavock, Jonathan, Moffatt, Michael, Sellers, ElizabethSummary:In the late 1980s, pediatric endocrinologists at the Children’s Hospital in Winnipeg began to notice a new cohort appearing in their clinics for young people with diabetes. Indigenous youngsters...