WHO accuses medical world of hiding the race of a black woman, Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were used to achieve breakthrough researches in cancer, HIV, COVID-19, etc
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has honoured Henrietta Lacks, recognising the world-changing legacy of the Black woman whose cancer cells were taken out without her consent, and has provided the basis for life-changing medical breakthroughs. In 1951, Henrietta Lacks, a Black mother of five who was dying of cervical cancer, went to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for treatment. […]
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