Modern day research and clinical trials are highly regulated.
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To refuse inclusion would prevent Africa’s researchers from being significant players in the universal fight against the virus.
Ghana’s goalkeepers, Stephen Adams (L) and Fatawu Dauda (R), pray before a 2014 World Cup match.
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Africa is a deeply divided continent along ideological, ethnic and territorial lines. Religion and football can produce consensus.
The local game in Senegal is underdeveloped.
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European football matches allow African fans to partake in the aspirational dreams exported worldwide by the Premier League or the Champions League.