Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schatz, Joseph J

Titel

Profile: Jean Claude Mbanya: fighting diabetes in Africa

Ist Teil von

• The Lancet (British edition), 2008-05, Vol.371 (9626), p.1742

Ort / Verlag

London: Elsevier Limited

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...] at the urging of his father-a local chief who had diabetes and had long dreamed of becoming a doctor-Mbanya went to the capital city, to live with his elder sister and sit the competitive entrance examination into medical school. The challenge, of course, is that in most African countries, health budgets are tight; diabetes competes with other diseases, for example, HIV/ AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria that are higher on the international agenda.