Y'all always telling on yourselves about your lack of circumcision.hey, this is a step up from chopping african penises off
Expanding Circumcision Options to Reduce HIV Risk
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Here we go again, Govt rejects UK scientists’ bid to test Covid-19 vaccine in Kenya.
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Y'all always telling on yourselves about your lack of circumcision.
this supremacist CAC is going to Africa to mess with penises and this is what your response is? Good job.
For the record, I'm in no way insisting Africans serve as "lab rats".
I'll admit I was completely ignorant of the fact that there were so few sites to actually conduct trials, as well as the poor infrastructure, and institutional support.
I now understand the importance including Africans in the testing of any would be vaccine, but at the same time the downfalls of allowing western organizations to come in to conduct them (who may not be completely altruistic).
Long term solution is for more African countries to stand up their own infrastructure to carry out trials in the interest of their own people like the article above argued.
Took a minute, but I learned something. Good thread
African individuals and companies are now making ventilators, hand sanitizers, face masks, etc. on an industrial level and they produce tens of thousands each day.
16 Genius Student's Solving Kenya's Ventilator Crisis
"With the world facing a shortage of ventilators, the duo of Paul Kariuki and Samuel Kairu have locally-made the machine using a wiper motor in a record time of four days.
Ventilators are one of the most sort after pieces of equipment in the world currently, due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic.
The duo from Thika saw an opportunity and grabbed it with both hands, embarking on a mission to create a locally assembled ventilator."
Innovative Duo Makes Local Ventilator in Record 4 Days
"Currently, the country has about 4,000 ventilators in its private hospitals and 2,000 in public ones. The National Ventilator Project plans to produce 1,500 ventilators by the end of May, and 10,000 by the end of June.“
South Africa is working on producing 10,000 ventilators by the end of June
“The Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON) has gone into the production of essential and life-saving equipment as part of the contribution of the Armed Forces to the national effort against the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.”
COVID-19: DICON manufactures ventilators, PPEs, hand sanitisers
"He added that with request of the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, DICON produced over 1500 dozens of DICSanz, a high-quality hand sanitizer for supply to troops of the Nigerian Army. He said the product is at the last stage of NAFDAC registration in line with extant due diligence provisions.
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Victor Ezugwu, head DICON assured that the industry has the capacity to produce thousands of these PPEs within a short period and at least 100 ventilators in a month.
Ezugwu added that the industry is not entirely profit oriented, hence the essential and life-saving equipment can be acquired at affordable rates. He said the PPE kit costs N8,000 and hand sanitisers go for as low as N400."
COVID-19: Nigerian military begins mass production of ventilators, PPE kits - Businessday NG
“COVID-19 News: Tech Companies Work to Solve the Ventilator Shortage in Nigeria
LifeBank founder, Temie Giwa-Tubosun says that they had found 126 units, possibly comprising all three equipment categories as the company had reached 200 hospitals across the country.
Now, two days after reaching 500 of 700 contacted hospitals, LifeBank has been able to register the availability of 244 units of equipment owned by the private sector – from this, it is confirmed that Nigeria has just under 100 ventilators that have been confirmed available in private-owned health facilities.
The majority of these ventilators are concentrated in Lagos, while the rest can be found in Abuja, Ogun, Delta, Rivers, and the Enugu states.
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Taking into account these statistics, the horizon looks grim indeed for Africa’s most populous country. Luckily, a few technology companies have sprung to the government’s aid.
One of these companies is Africa Business Angel Network, which is in the process of manufacturing more ventilators from a prototype model it had received through the possible aid of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI).“
COVID-19 News: Tech Companies Work to Solve the Ventilator Shortage in Nigeria
“Necessity is the mother of inventions,” even amid the global misery of the COVID-19 pandemic. Across Africa, local engineers are doing their best to boost containment efforts especially in the area of production of ventilators, a key health-saving resource for persons with acute coronavirus.
In Cameroon’s Bafoussam, the chief regional city in the western part of the country, at the basement of an uncompleted building, engineers of L’Agence Universitaire pour L’innovation have produced prototypes of the much needed ventilator and a vaporized sanitizing door.
Serge Apupoh, the technical director of the university speaks about the inventions: “So here we have the ventilator, its mask which goes onto the face of the patient and then the tube which transports the air.
“As you can notice it is still a prototype so other things still need to be put in place, so it works really simple, but it is difficult for me to use now because my breathing is affected by the artificial support system.”
The initiative has been in collaboration with a local who supervised previous productions as the clinic served as a platform to test prototypes. Authorities in th town have also lauded the initiative as life saving.
Some locals said: “We trust that the state will make available the needed support as well so that all these prototypes can become useful.
We mostly import things even when we can produce them locally and with this innovation it is clear that Cameroon has great engineers who can compete at international levels. That said they have all of my support when any need arises.”
The government is expected to evaluate and support the mass production of these products made in Cameroon so as to curb the increasing threats of the pandemic."
COVID-19: Cameroon engineers develop ventilator prototype | Africanews
“Professor Fred McBagonluri, the President of Academic City University College working with 13 others, have developed a baseline prototype of a mechanical ventilator to support the national and global efforts towards eradicating COVID-19 pandemic.”
Ghana’s locally made mechanical ventilator needs support | News Ghana
"Ghana has just made another big forward step in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic as the College of Engineering at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has out-doored a newly made prototype ventilator."
Ghana makes big progress in COVID-19 fight as KNUST outdoors home-made ventilator [ARTICLE] - Pulse Ghana
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Africans are NOT a petri-dish to your conduct scientific experiments. There are developed countries RAVAGED by the virus. Have these been considered as prime potential testing? Its ethically reprehensible to suggest the willingness of a third world's citizen as justifiable cause. When the Economic disparity between host and guest, is where a hypothetical compensation of minimum wage, while still significantly below standard rate, far exceeds the average wealth of the host's citizen. Its morally reprehensible on account of the historical precedent of colonialism and neo-colonialism. As the disease in question isn't disproportionately occurring in Kenya. Whether Kenya said NO isn't even the issue (though knowing the worthless politicians in Kenya they'd have agreed had it been hushed up or approached in secrecy). The problem is even CONSIDERING attempting this here in the first place. This isn't some collaborative effort between peers. Its outright trying to exploit a group which won't have as big a repercussion.