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Volume 353:1761-1763 October 27, 2005 Number 17 Next

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After what seemed like years of teleconferencing, protocol revisions, international travel, and training sessions, the staff at the HIV clinical care and research site in India, where we had worked for four years, was gearing up to start enrollment in a five-year international trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). But just months before it was to be launched, one of our lead research nurses, Ms. Rao (not her real name), who had been trained with NIH funds, quietly announced that she was leaving to pursue a job offer in the United States.

Many more nurses like Ms. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Chaguturu is a resident in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston. Ms. Vallabhaneni is a fourth-year medical student at Brown Medical School, Providence, R.I.

An interview with Dr. Chaguturu can be heard at www.nejm.org.

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