Health of indigenous people: use of health services by indigenous population can be improved.

EDITOR–We note that the aboriginal groups living in India were not included in Durie's editorial on providing health services to indigenous peoples.1 We share here an experiment with a group of “primitive tribes” (as classified by the government of India) in improving their health status. In 1987, when a non-governmental organisation, ACCORD (Action for Community Organisation, Rehabilitation and Development), initiated its health programme, …