TESTING FUTURE VACCINE IN AFRICA UNACCEPTABLE - JOSEP BORREL

Josep Borrel

The head of European Union diplomacy, Josep Borrell, declared the idea of ​​testing a future vaccine against the coronavirus - COVID 19 in Africa unacceptable.

"The idea that Africa could serve as a laboratory for vaccine testing trials for the rest of the world is clearly unacceptable," Borrell said in response to a request for comment on controversy in France over considerations regarding coronavirus vaccine trials in African countries.

“The test conditions for the vaccine against coronavirus, as well as against any other disease, must comply with ethical rules and very strict sanitary protocols,” Borrell stressed in Brussels during a video conference after a video meeting of European Union development ministers.

The European Union, he said, supports research carried out "in ethically acceptable conditions in the interests of all countries."

Two French scientists have proposed to test the vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 in African countries. Their outrageous remarks spark anger throughout many African countries. Among those that led a crusade against the provocative suggestion were former footballers Samuel Eto'o and Didier Drogba.

The World Health Organization, the health institution that had previously supervised many medical crimes in Africa, through vaccination and drugs, also reacted critically to a proposal by French scientists to test the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus vaccine in Africa. 

"Such a statement is racist and contrary to the spirit of solidarity," said the corrupt World Health Organization Director-General, Tedros Adhan Ghebreyesus on Monday, April 6.

He called the statement a relic of the colonial mentality. Africa cannot and will not become a testing ground for any vaccine," said Gebreyesus.

In early April, two French scientists, during a television discussion, suggested testing an emerging vaccine against a new virus in African countries. 

"There are no masks, there are no treatment options, there are no resuscitation measures," said Jean-Paul Mira, the head doctor of a Paris hospital. 

Camille Lauche, research director at Inserm State Institute, supported the interlocutor, adding that it is also necessary to conduct testing in Europe or Australia.

Both scientists have already apologized after their discriminatory words caused criticism and provocation in Africa. 

Even though the French Foreign Ministry said that the allegations of experts do not reflect the position of the French authorities, in the past, The Institut Pasteur, an international renown research center in Paris, had previously joined other foreign countries to use Africans as guinea pigs in testing drugs and vaccines.

The first vaccinations by famous pioneers such as Edward Jenner, Louis Pasteur, and Robert Koch were the beginning of inserting or administrating animal microorganisms into the human immunological system in accordance with Pasteur’s Postulates.

At the end of 2019, an outbreak of pulmonary disease, COVID - 19, emerged from the city of Wuhan, in China, since then, the disease has infected close to three million people (2,923,821) and killed 203,319 worldwide.

EUROPEAN UNION, TOTAL FAILURE OR SUCCESS?

The European Union flag


The European Union was formed to boost the relations between the governments of the European countries and to strengthen trade and commerce. 

The members of unified Europe then came out with one common currency known as the 'Euro.'

The problem the union is currently facing is adequately enough to know that the union has brought disaster and calamity upon the member states and the economy than the effective trade and boost of the economy planned previously before the union was formed.

The current position in Europe is very fragile. Many have lost their jobs, firms and industries have gone bankrupt, industries and factories permanently shut down and prices of commodities twice more expensive than before, making the life of the common man unbearable.

To save the situation, the union is financially helping the worst affected countries within the union but yet progress is still far. The question many Europeans are asking is if the countries should go back to their old currencies. 

But would that solve the problem? The economy is already in very bad shape, that may many years to salvage it.

From every angle, the European Union is a total failure, since the goals on which the union was built couldn`t be achieved.

EUROPEAN UNION GRANTS LIBERIA LOAN FOR EMERGENCY AID

The European Union


The European Union (EU) has decided to release a loan of 10 million euros, as an additional aid to Liberia to enable some 500,000 people in the country to have access to health care and drinking water, according to the press statement issued in Brussels by the European Union last year.

The loan, among others, will be used to bridge the funding gap in the transitional period between humanitarian aid funding and development funding. 

The EU noted that the aid to Liberia has been so far "successful and helped to establish a link between emergency aid, rehabilitation, and development".

Out of the loan, 7 million euros will be used to fund the primary health care projects and to improve maternal and infant health. In addition, the loan will be used to finance programs for access to drinking water and sanitation networks and for the improvement of hygiene.

Part of the funds of about 2.95 million euros will be used to ensure a harmonious transition to bridge the gap until the end of the process. 

Liberia is one of the African countries that was totally crippled by war during the era of Charles Taylor, who is now facing criminal charges at The Hague.