African countries have been deliberately sold dangerously defective medical products in the past (although not by UNICEF, as far as I know) and of course that was wrong, but if for that reason the WHO decides not to approve this vaccine, it doesn’t make sense to blame present-day UNICEF. They can’t change the past; they can only offer medication now.
It seems like they are erring on the side of caution to the max because it only takes one catastrophic responder for a massive medical/political/pr shit storm, given that history. There are always grifters and crisis actors waiting for their next venture
Doesn’t help that a lot of these things are damned if you do, not damned if you don’t. The incentive is just not there to take that kind of risk. There will always be unintended consequences when these solutions are imposed or offered from outside
There’s some weird history or something where Africans supposedly received bad medications or something to do with sterilization I think…
African countries have been deliberately sold dangerously defective medical products in the past (although not by UNICEF, as far as I know) and of course that was wrong, but if for that reason the WHO decides not to approve this vaccine, it doesn’t make sense to blame present-day UNICEF. They can’t change the past; they can only offer medication now.
It seems like they are erring on the side of caution to the max because it only takes one catastrophic responder for a massive medical/political/pr shit storm, given that history. There are always grifters and crisis actors waiting for their next venture
Doesn’t help that a lot of these things are damned if you do, not damned if you don’t. The incentive is just not there to take that kind of risk. There will always be unintended consequences when these solutions are imposed or offered from outside