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To the Editor: The article by Sagoe-Moses et al. on the risks to health care workers in developing countries (Aug. 16 issue)¹ could not be more pertinent. As one of many volunteers with the Malawi Orthopaedic Project, I worked in a program to train 10 clinical officers a year in the care of orthopedic problems commonly seen in developing countries, most of which involve skeletal trauma. In Malawi, where the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has been estimated to infect 30 percent of the population, it soon became obvious that protection against self-inoculation was a critical part of the clinical officers' . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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