Ghosts of (colonial) vaccines past: Why East Africans shun clinical trials
A researcher at the University of Pittsburgh works on a Covid-19 vaccine candidate, a fingertip-sized patch with dissolvable microscopic needles, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US on March 28, 2020. PHOTO | UPMC | REUTERS
In a count kept by the journal Nature, more than 115 vaccine trials for Covid-19 are going on in the world but none in Africa despite the region recording over 88,000 confirmed cases of the virus and more than 2,853 associated deaths.
According to the data, 46 per cent of the vaccines are in North America, 18 per cent in China, and 18 per cent in Asia, excluding China, Australia and Europe.
