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AIDS Experts Quit New England Journal Over Editorial

Published in AIDS Weekly, October 27th, 1997

Two top AIDS experts have resigned from the New England Journal of Medicine's board to protest an editorial that likened AIDS studies in the Third World to the notorious Tuskegee experiment.

Dr. David Ho, head of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City, and Dr. Catherine M. Wilfert, a pediatric AIDS expert at Duke University, said as board members they should have been consulted about the editorial before it was published in September 1997.

The editorial criticized several studies, mostly in Africa, that are intended to see if brief, inexpensive doses of the drug AZT will keep HIV infected mothers from passing the virus to their...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (1997-10-27)

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