BMJ 2004;329 (11 September), doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7466.0-d
Mortality among doctors in Uganda is high
A high proportion of doctors who graduated in 1984 in Uganda died within 20 years of graduation. Dambisya (p 600) obtained information about 74 of the 77 doctors who graduated in Makerere, Uganda, and found that 22 had died. The most common causes of death were AIDS (11 cases) and suicide (six cases, five related to knowledge or fear of being HIV positive). Two thirds of the surviving graduates work in Uganda, mainly in the public sector.
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