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Pride Chigwedere | |
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| Born | August 1, 1974 |
| Nationality |  Zimbabwe |
| Education | Harvard University (PhD) University of Zimbabwe (MB ChB) |
| Known for | Showing that about 300 000 untimely deaths occurred in South Africa because of untreated HIV/AIDS[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | HIV, Global health |
Pride Chigwedere (born 1 August 1974), a Zimbabwean national, is a Harvard trained physician-scientist working in global health. He is most notable for leading a team of Harvard researchers who demonstrated that South African President Thabo Mbeki's AIDS policies led to more than 300 000 deaths.[2][3] While South Africa's policies were condemned by many, Chigwedere's contribution was in developing and applying methods to quantify the impact of the policies thus demonstrating the calamitous consequences of AIDS denialism. Generalized, he developed an approach for evaluating public health practice and highlighted the need to develop a framework for accountability in public health. Drawing from the analogy with medicine, he has proposed the concept of public health malpractice to capture negligence that causes harm as a useful first step towards accountability in public health.[4] A response to Chigwedere's work by AIDS denialists led by Peter Duesberg was initially published by the non-peer-reviewed journal Medical Hypotheses followed by a retraction because of poor quality of data, undeclared conflicts of interest, and potential effects on global health.[5][6]
- ^ "The cost of South Africa's misguided AIDS policies". News. 15 May 2009. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
- ^ [1] Researchers Estimate Lives Lost Due to Delay in Antiretroviral Drug Use for HIV/AIDS in South Africa
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2009. Retrieved 20 September 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Estimating the Lost Benefits of Antiretroviral Drug Use in South Africa - ^ Chigwedere, Pride Mugove. Antiretroviral Drug Use in South Africa: From Science to Practice and Malpractice. Harvard University Publications, 2008
- ^ Duesberg PH, Nicholson JM, Rasnick D, Fiala C, Bauer HH (July 2009). "WITHDRAWN: HIV-AIDS hypothesis out of touch with South African AIDS - A new perspective". Medical Hypotheses. doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2009.06.024. PMID 19619953.
- ^ "Elsevier retracts Duesberg's AIDS Denialist article | AIDSTruth.org". Archived from the original on 4 October 2009. Retrieved 18 September 2009. Elsevier retracts Duesberg’s AIDS Denialist article