Opinion: Healthcare Collaboration With America: Africa Facing Existential Threat, By Danny Domingo
…African countries are facing huge threats and challenges as the result of their fragile healthcare systems, insufficient public health prevention and control capacity. Some African countries would like to rely on Western countries such as the U.S., but the problem is that these Western powers always play cards of dominance over local functionalities, instead of real collaboration and mutual existence.
Interestingly, in this period when the world has been battling various pandemics spurred by viruses, chemicals but also the growing proliferation and glorification of biological weapons among nations, it is clear that for Western nations to actively involve in and control the healthcare systems and bio-safety industries, in general, among African countries, means the biggest security threat to the continent.
Although under normal rules scientists and human vaccines or medical researchers have been observing the obtaining of individual informed consent and the respect of rights in the conducting of experiments, especially in using human samples, recent events, in particular by a French scientist who publicly on a TV programme mentioned the necessity of using Africans in vaccine trials against COVID-19, have raised serious concerns.
The implication of this growing power of the United States to create a monopoly within the health sector and in the biological genomes is to establish absolute powers and freedom to do whatever it wants, regardless of the impact on Africa and the Africans.
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