Santé contre données : Washington met l'Afrique au pied du mur
The United States is now imposing a condition: without biological data, no more financial aid or medication. Washington is demanding disease samples, but also access to patients' medical records. In other words, our illnesses, our tests, our treatments: the most intimate aspects of our lives.
The fact is alarming, and it reveals the flaws in our healthcare systems. The most profound: their dependence on external funding to provide essential treatments, such as antiretrovirals. This is precisely where Washington is pressing. Our governments are negotiating out of fear of leaving patients without medication. Conditioning vital funding on such a demand has a name: blackmail.
Some countries, however, said no. Ghana refused, denouncing a clause that would allow for the identification of patients "if necessary." But who determines what constitutes "necessary"? Zimbabwe, for its part, rejected a $367 million agreement. The data would be used to develop vaccines and treatments, but the text explicitly states that Africans would not have priority access. These products would be reserved first for Americans.
Meanwhile, Washington continues its bilateral negotiations, country by country. No doubt because, divided, we are more vulnerable.
Africa has no shortage of doctors or specialists. The brainpower is there. We simply need to give it the resources to work, and we will never again have to trade our sensitive data for medicines. However, the long-term health security of the African continent will absolutely depend on its financial independence, its mastery of sequencing, and the development of its own vaccine industry.
So the question remains: who would agree to hand over their people's medical data to a foreign power in exchange for medicines?
Commentaires (15)
Cela dit, je m'adresse à ceux d'entre nous qui sont lucides.
On n'est plus dans du chantage mais du terrorisme. Aucun pays n'a le droit de céder les données aussi personnelles que celles-là à un pays étranger qu'elles que puissent être les raisons.
Crevons tous! Les citoyens seront en droit de poursuivre les autorités en cas de violation de ce droit fondamental.
Aussi, il est temps que les africains soient un peu fiers d'eux-mêmes et de leurs dirigeants. Une administration Trump ne peut obliger tout le monde à baisser son froc. ça suffit.
Il ne s'agit plus de racisme mais d'humiliation, de rendre les gens indignes, des moins que rien. Mourons dans la pauvreté mais avec dignité
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