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Accommodating dissent

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Providing cures for health problems isn't enough, if people's personal or cultural beliefs clash with the scientific approach. Policy-makers must recognize and engage with these objections.

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  1. Melissa Leach is director of the ESRC STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 9RE, UK.,

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