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Le cobaye africain
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The African guinea-pig
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Ground D? eternal wars, vast cemetery with open sky where are buried each year of the million people, desert of the flouées economies and the dreams despoiled, L? Is Africa also L? eldorado of the international pharmaceutical firms which come to test their new products in L there? mistaken absolute of the ethical rules of biomedical research.

C? is like in spite of it and with the detriment of the human lives sacrificed without scruples on L? furnace bridge of medical “progress”, L? Africa contributes to advance science. Surfant on the climate of corruption generalized of the authorities and governments local, of L? did carcinogenic impunity, the pharmaceutical laboratories invest the negro continent it “to save” medical stagnation in which it S? insert a little more each day. Nobody N? what the cradle of L is unaware of? humanity is also that of the majority of pandemias, of the AIDS to paludism while passing by tuberculosis. Pandemias which alone exterminate more D? African that the totality of joined together fratricidal tearings. C? is thus in “savers” and “humanitarians” that the Western laboratories S? establish on the continent in order to carry out in any discretion of experiments qu? they would undoubtedly not carry out this manner in their own countries. L? ignorance of the patients and L? execrable poverty helping, work is undertaken in L? the largest opacity. S? it is true that in the official attitudes and speeches, L? Africa is a continent relegated to L? “untouchable” level with L? instar of the famous Indian caste, and that for a few years, it has become particularly “undesirable”, remaining the target of the hardening of the policies D? is concerted immigrations, the “territory of dark miseries” used by the “industrialists of the drugs” according to L? expression of Jean-Philippe Chippaux, to solve the medical problems of North.

Between 2004 and 2005, L? association Family Health International (FHI) supported by the American laboratory Gilead Sciences whose principal givers are the American government and the Foundation Bill and Melinda Gates, carried out in several African countries, Nigeria, Cameroun, Ghana, of the clinical trials of Tenofovir ®, antiviral used against the AIDS on hordes of prostitutes, encouraged to have not protected sexual relations. Denounced by of ONG local like that of the Right Network Studies and AIDS (REDS) and vis-a-vis L? agitation of the populations, these tests “officially” were suspended. L? Africa represents by the “weakness of the costs and controls”, a true aubaine for the pharmaceutical groups. Drifts related to L? absence D? a strict observation of the ethical rules which prevailing however in Occident, pushed these groups to be seen in this continent plunged in a kind D? apocalypse, a paradise of the prohibited experiments. In 2005, revealed by the chain of French television France 2 in L? emission “Complement D? inquire”, the scandal of the prostitutes of Douala burst in Cameroun. A sordid business of bribes and contracts badly negotiated which authorized, on bottom of confusion and resignation, the local branch of the FHI, Care and Health Program, to push these “prostitutes” to multiply the sexual relations without protection in order to “test” L? effectiveness D? a product house of prevention against the AIDS. Obnubilated by the financial advantages (paid approximately four euros per month) and materials of the proposal, bernées by L? agreement of the ministry for health, the girls not doubting the “benevolence” of these “doctors” played the morbid game. Prostitutes N? not being dealt with in case D? infection HIV by the pharmaceutical group, but by the authorities which one knows the zeal, were found quickly sick and gave up with their fate. Urbain Olanguena, the Almighty Cameronian Minister for the public health, was dismissed to calm the anger of the populations. Does decree then écroué for speculation of State revenues and corruption, it always await L? opening of its lawsuit. Tests of the FHI carried out in D? other countries like Malawi or Botswana, vis-a-vis the Cameronian outcry “were temporarily suspended”. But nobody N? is easily deceived, these experiments continue in a form or another, without the din of the cantors of the “good conscience” and the “boring” prophets of the respect of the rights of L? man.

Then “Far from the eyes, far from L? ethics? ” as Dye stick-Marie Gervais wondered it the day before L? opening of the world conference on the AIDS held recently in Mexico City, the answer is clearly affirmative within sight of the practices indexed on the African continent. Far from do the rigour of the Western legislations, in the zones in suffering and from human distresses, the “exterminating angels with the white blouse” benefit from the weaknesses of the system to allow best L? scientific immorality. An alarming situation which would call almost another interrogation, which ethics for research in a hurry D? to arrive quickly at “treatments” miracles? The non-observance of the International Conventions, L? do epidemic urgency, the medical need, all these arguments justify that L? one “tolerates” L? unacceptable? For “Big Pharma” the question does not even arise. The choice is done everything. African, like their Asian friends, is the new “rats of laboratory” on which are built the prospects for profits gigantic. Aren't the natural resources enough any more, it is necessary also that the “miserable” life of L? African man can be used for something.

One attends from now on the delocalization of biomedical research, always for the same reasons: costs appreciably less high, “hand D?? uvre” abundant and failing. In 2006, according to American did Sonia Sha, journalist, “more half of the therapeutic tests of Glaxo SmiyhKline take place out of L? Occident”. C? is to say that the preference for the countries of the South seems definitively registered in the m? the USSR of the capitalists of the drug. L? Can't occident support or less to receive the misery of L? Africa, do we hear in the speeches of the “décomplexés” politicians, but L? Can occident “legitimately” S? to authorize to make test its drugs by the African paupers. Even if it means to die, better is worth to do it while rendering service with richest.
Biomedical research is governed by principles however recognized and “accepted” by all. What it is international Declaration of the rights of L? man with the Code D? ethics for the companies or Total Compact, while passing by a series of rules which frame the clinical trials, it is recalled that “L? does interest of the patient have to take precedence over L? interest general, that of science and even more on that of the pharmaceutical companies”. The Code of Nuremberg stipulates to him that the assent of the “guinea-pig” must be “free” and “enlightened”. Which value can one grant to an assent when the patient badly is informed of the incurred risks and is crushed by the weight D? a difficult existence? Which freedom does one have when it is necessary to even have patience of the hours of the days, under a blazing sun or a flood, to be received by a doctor and who L? there are not the means of looking after oneself? In this jungle of unvoiced comments and D? is hypocrisy where it common to draw on L? is elasticity of the legal terms, the patient a prey which S? be unaware of. With Cameroun, certain associations D? do students in right propose, voluntarily, from now on with the patients of being able to turn to them in order to receive a neutral opinion on L? object and finalities of the research for which they are requested. An effort which N? is unfortunately not encouraged by the sectarian and corrupted government.
The criminal intrigues of the pharmaceutical firms in Africa are ashamed infringements which leave to marble the great international institutions. They, as with L? accustomed, divert the eyes and stop the nostrils. A policy of L? ostrich in which it is advisable to say it, L? occident is largely gaining. However L? Occident, C? is the International Court of Justice, L? United Nations, ingenuous morality, L? History, L? single source of wisdom and D? intelligence, which knows what is well and what is badly. Since the years 1990 with the controversy on the clinical trials relating to L? use of the placebo, wall cupboards of biomedical research N? ceased filling of corpses of which the exuberance embaume honorary patents and other prices. In 1996, did the Pfizer giant use in L? State de Kano in Nigeria, of the children like guinea-pigs, an illegal way, in its research D? a drug counters meningitis. On the 200 children reached of meningitis, 99 D? between them received Trovan Floraxine, the product with C? ur of L? clinical trial, while 101 others took of Ceftriaxone, normally prescribed in the treatment of meningitis. At the end of this clinical trial, one counted 11 dead children and one could diagnose at the others of many after-effects: cerebral deafness, paralysis, lesions, blindness. A obvious example of L? “exploitation by L? ignorance” as in 2007 Washington Post qualified it. But for Pfizer, this test contributed to save lives, without specifying which.
In 2004, the German magazine Zeit denounced in an investigation the activities of Syria in the Darfur who primarily consisted in testing on the black populations of the chemical weapons. What to say of Project Coast developed during L? apartheid in South Africa which saw the collaboration of the United States, of Switzerland, D? Israel, of L? England, of France and certain countries arabo-Moslems (Iraq, Libya), and of which the goal was to create a “molecule mortal sensitive to the mélanine which pigments blacks”. A kind D? arms with racial destruction which would have made it possible “to limit” the demographic weight of this category D? individuals constituting a permanent threat. The programmes of sterilization of the women “of color” put-in-place, will come supported this madness.
L? Africa, too often scorned and made fun, small end of the “black” world which N? did not know “to enter L? History”, does one say in these closed circles and salt cossus where his fate is in addition decided, this Africa said I, is aujourd? today the ground privileged for all the “industrial experiments more amorales, more the least expensive productivists and”. In Burkina Faso, powerful Mosanto, after D? enormous pressures on the government and some credit transfers, could convince the government D? to open its borders with the GMO in spite of the calls to L? observation of the principle of precaution formulated by Professor Didier Zongo, celebrates geneticist. L? State “protecting only the interests D? a class parasitizes” oligarch and of the “foreign capital from which it results more or less by co-optation and influence”, the right of the people neglects superbly to know and to choose. And those which try to mobilize the popular masses by informing them of the dangers of L? allegiance of the authorities to the Western “purse”, they quickly are reduced to silence, are imprisoned or assassinated. In Dimension D? Ivory, L? State having given its assent for clinical trials, S? is retracted by requiring large financial compensations for the victims. Seeking to avoid the scandal, the pharmaceutical firm decided to give a cheque of 100 billion frank to L? State which S? D hastened? to box the nest egg by refilant crumbs, is a hundred million frank, with those which needed it most, the victims. The bargaining of the life of the patients is an infamy which testifies to the perfidy to certain capitalist groups and the their vassal ones of African leaders.
L? one of the perverse effects D? such a situation, C? is the refusal from now on local populations to be made vaccinate fearing a cynical handling of the medical centers, as in the North of Nigeria where the vaccination campaigns are a dangerous failure. From time immemorial misused, African turns more and more to the traditional medicine which has the merit to draw from nature the richnesses ignored a long time by L? man. Many are the governments on the continent which give to the “tradi-experts” a clear recognition, licences, allowing them D? to exert in legality. The return to the sources, C? is undoubtedly L there? single positive consequence of this Maffia properly scandalous.
Wars and other wars supplied with L? aren't outside enough any more to satisfy L? Is occident, it necessary from now on that the traffics D? bones, D? human organs, the sale of out-of-date drugs, discharges of industrial and nuclear waste, L? can importation of the infected meat, chicken to dioxane and unsuitable cuttings to consumption far from answering the “minimal” normals international, complete the small number D? human beings which still manages to survive in Africa. Africa become with the wire of time the dump of the “civilized” world. Only L would not have to be believed? one is radically opposed to the clinical trials, if that is done in the transparency, in knowledge, respecting the international standards and the dignity of the patients, it would be interesting taking into account the clean nature of pathologies in Africa. But when L? it is known that on “1450 new drugs marketed between 1972 and 1997, only 13 relate to the tropical diseases”, the relevance even of the clinical trials practised in Africa is swept D? a reverse of the hand. Because at does the bottom, the only Master of the play remain L? pharmaceutical industry. L? scientific interest S? opposing too often to L? commercial ambition. The industrial stakes of the drug are consolidated by the poverty of countries of the South, a vertical relation which distorts the reports/ratios of force and accentuates cleavages. During the preceding decade, one estimated at nearly 400 billion D? euros the figure D? businesses world of L? industry pharmaceutical whereas that of the countries D? Did sub-Saharan Africa reach hardly the 300 billion D? euros.
Life of L? African is a raw material like another, exploitable. The particular situation of the continent authorizes the great predatory groups to be devoted to all inhumanities. A so banal life and without future, can serve as the interests infinitely more interesting. Growing old and sick North being, the South poor, beggar and “politically irresponsible”, the bond is quickly established. And they are numerous to think it aujourd? today, that the Western panacea passes imperatively by the dehumanization of the African guinea-pig.


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