The African Union (AU) said on Thursday that a controversial suggestion made by French doctors to test a coronavirus vaccine in Africa smacks...
The African Union said on Thursday that a controversial suggestion made by French doctors to test a coronavirus vaccine in Africa smacks of colonialism and will not be pursued.
“The times of the colonialists are past gone,’’ Kwesi Quartey, the Deputy Chairperson of the AU said in Addis Ababa. During a programme that aired on French television recently, Camille Locht from France’s National Institute of Health and Medical Research and Jean-Paul Mira from the Cochin Hospital in Paris suggested Africa as a location for vaccine tests.“A bit like it’s done with some studies on AIDS, where things are tried with prostitutes because we know they are highly exposed and do not protect themselves,’’ Mira said.
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