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Nigerian med student aims to end white bias in textbooks

DW, 06 Feb 2022
White patients are the default when it comes to medical training. In fact, one recent US study found that in some medical books, only 4 percent of images have black skin.
But this is what medical texts could look like - if one Nigerian medical student has his way. DW's West Africa correspondent Flourish Chukwurah reports from Lagos.


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