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I mean, a lot of that is due to historical grievances that those groups have with the government and NGOs. They’ve been burned too many times. It’s the same reason a black person will be hesitant to call the cops; They have a history of causing more damage than they fix, so certain populations will be wary of them. Even if these organizations mean well, they’re fighting an uphill battle because they have to break through the mistrust first. Fool me once, and all that jazz.

Hell, look at Pakistan’s issues with Polio for a good example of how people are able to remember being harmed by an organization. Pakistan still deals with polio and other fully preventable diseases, largely because the population mistrusts vaccinations. Vaccination programs simply haven’t been effective. And why does the population distrust vaccinations? Because the CIA masqueraded as doctors on a humanitarian mission, in order to covertly collect DNA samples from the population in their hunt for Osama Bin Laden. Something blatantly against the Geneva Convention. So now lots of the population has a major distrust of modern medicine and doctors, because there are still plenty of people who remember what happened the last time they trusted western “doctors”.