Health research: working with Indigenous People in Peru

Abstract

We want to manifest our concern about a recent original article published in your journal that cited one of our articles, Gabriela Minaya and Joel Roque have included our work about indigenous people and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the Peruvian Amazon (Zavaleta et al. 2007a) in their discussion about "Ethical problems in health research with Indigenous or originary people in Peru" (Minaya and Roque 2015). We have detected a number of serious discrepancies between their affirmations regarding what we did vs. what we have published in 2007....