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People in Africa have every reason to be suspicious of white men coming in and injecting them with shit.
https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/medicine-empires-and-ethics-colonial-africa/2016-07
https://news.uoregon.edu/content/medical-researchers-africa-must-learn-past-prof-finds
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/4/8/medical-colonialism-in-africa-is-not-new
So yeah, it is frustrating to see when they push against things like vaccines, but it's entirely understandable given the history of what has been done to these people again and again.
Oh, for sure. The way the British came in and told everyone to put their boobs away because it's immodest, and use formula made with well water to give your baby diarrhea early and maybe kill it, just breathtakingly idiotic.