French doctors' proposal to test COVID-19 cure in Africa slammed as 'colonial mentality'

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has condemned controversial comments made by French doctors about testing a COVID-19 potential treatment first in Africa, calling the remarks a 'hangover from a colonial mentality.'

— World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has condemned controversial comments made by French doctors about testing a Covid-19 potential treatment first in Africa, calling the remarks a"hangover from a colonial mentality."

The two doctors appeared last Wednesday on French TV network on LCI, where they discussed whether the BCG tuberculosis vaccine could be a potential treatment for Covid-19. The drug is undergoing clinical trials for that purpose in the Netherlands and Australia.

The group Esprit D'Ebene, which works with marginalized young people of African descent in France, said on Facebook that"this kind of proposal should never again be tolerated ... no matter where it is in the world." Inserm defended Locht in a press release, saying that the exchange was cropped from a much longer conversation and"is the subject of erroneous interpretations on social media."

"If there is indeed a reflection around a deployment in Africa, it would be done in parallel with these. Africa must not be forgotten or excluded from research because the pandemic is global," it added.

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