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Zimbabwean researchers criticise Dutch newspaper on HIV trials
10 May 2015 at 15:46hrs | Views
The 5-day interest workshop has ended in the capital with local researchers expressing shock over false allegations peddled by a Dutch newspaper about Zimbabwe.
A daily newspaper, Wemos, based in Amsterdam falsely accuses Zimbabwean researchers of conducting HIV/AIDS trial tests that leave room for ethical violations.
The report, written by Annellies Den Bor, claims that an HIV positive woman in Zimbabwe, Grace Mawere, was attacked by blindness during her trial participation and later died which is a flaw in Zimbabwe's research system.
UNAIDS programme officer Ms Tamara Johnson says the report comes as a shock to them as they are pleased with the research work going on in Zimbabwe, hence the decision to host the interest workshop for the first time in Zimbabwe.
UZ-UCSF project director Dr Nyaradzo Mgodi, however, says it is surprising that after 5 days of intense deliberations, some international researchers who had witnessed 1st hand how research is being conducted in the country went on to report falsely tarnishing the country's image.
Researchers from across the globe were in Zimbabwe for a 5-day interest conference.
On the last day, they toured Chitungwiza Central Hospital.
Commemorations were also held to honour HIV/AIDS researchers Joep Lange and Jacqueline Von Tongeren researchers who died in the MH17 Malaysian plane that crashed in Ukraine on the 19th of December 2014.
A daily newspaper, Wemos, based in Amsterdam falsely accuses Zimbabwean researchers of conducting HIV/AIDS trial tests that leave room for ethical violations.
The report, written by Annellies Den Bor, claims that an HIV positive woman in Zimbabwe, Grace Mawere, was attacked by blindness during her trial participation and later died which is a flaw in Zimbabwe's research system.
UNAIDS programme officer Ms Tamara Johnson says the report comes as a shock to them as they are pleased with the research work going on in Zimbabwe, hence the decision to host the interest workshop for the first time in Zimbabwe.
UZ-UCSF project director Dr Nyaradzo Mgodi, however, says it is surprising that after 5 days of intense deliberations, some international researchers who had witnessed 1st hand how research is being conducted in the country went on to report falsely tarnishing the country's image.
Researchers from across the globe were in Zimbabwe for a 5-day interest conference.
On the last day, they toured Chitungwiza Central Hospital.
Commemorations were also held to honour HIV/AIDS researchers Joep Lange and Jacqueline Von Tongeren researchers who died in the MH17 Malaysian plane that crashed in Ukraine on the 19th of December 2014.
Source - zbc
