Two French doctors recently suggested carrying out covid-19 vaccine trials on Africa and unfortunately this is not something new...

J. Marion Sims, “the Father of Gynecology” experimented on enslaved black women in Alabama who were often submitted as guinea pigs by their owners
The Tuskegee syphilis experiment: it began in 1932. In the syphilis study, doctors were trying to find out more about syphilis test subjects (impoverished African American men), and didn't treat them for syphilis even after they knew penicillin could cure the infection.
Henrietta Lacks cells were harvested without her knowledge in 1951 while she was receiving treatment for cervical cancer.

Scientists used her cells (HeLa cells) in research for decades without the knowledge of her and her family.
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