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Gates Foundation vaccine testing on African children

RecordOBS-0589
CategoryHealth/Vaccines
StatusDEBUNKED
SummaryA claim that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has tested vaccines on children in Africa and India, causing deaths and injuries. This is part of the broader anti-Gates conspiracy narrative. The claim is often used to suggest that Gates is using Africans as guinea pigs.
OriginThis claim has circulated for years, but gained renewed attention during the COVID-19 pandemic. It often references a tetanus vaccine trial in Kenya.
Claimed
  • The Gates Foundation tested vaccines on children in Africa and India, leading to thousands of deaths.
  • A tetanus vaccine in Kenya contained abortion drugs.
  • Bill Gates is facing trial in India for vaccine-related deaths.
Evidence / consensusThere is no evidence for these claims. Vaccine trials are conducted with ethical oversight. The tetanus vaccine claim was investigated and found to be false. The Gates Foundation's work is widely supported by health organizations.
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A recurring colonial-era fear of Western medicine being used to harm Africans. The claims are unsubstantiated and have been repeatedly refuted by fact-checkers.

Sources

  1. How Bill Gates became the voodoo doll of Covid conspiracies

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