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Nigerian med student aims to end white bias in textbooks | DW News

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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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