Actress Angelina Jolie recently spoke to Malone Mukwende, a medical student who is on a mission to improve healthcare for non-white patients via Time magazine and the duo chatted about the project called “Mind the Gap.” Explaining the work behind the project, Mukwende said: “I got to medical school and noticed there was a gap in our teaching.
If we learned about a particular type of rash or disease that manifests on skin, it would always have white skin as the reference.
I would ask ‘what does this look like on other skin tones?’ just for my own learning. Often people told me that they didn’t know.
I decided that something needed to be done. Some members of staff at the university and I then started collating pictures and descriptions of.
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