Claim: A Kenyan gynaecologist has made unfounded claims about malaria, tetanus and HPV vaccines.
Source: Social media
Verdict: All false
Researched by Gifty Tracy Aminu
A video showing a man identified as Dr Wahome Ngare, a Kenyan gynaecologist, addressing a gathering with Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni and other guests in attendance, is heard making claims about Tetanus, Malaria, and Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines.
According to GhanaFact checks, Dr Ngare made the series of claims during a three-day event dubbed – “African Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Family Values and Sovereignty” in Entebbe, Uganda, held in May 2024.
In the 7-minute and 59-second WhatsApp video tagged as “Forwarded Many Times” and captioned “share widely please”, the medical doctor claimed vaccines introduced by the World Health Organisation (WHO) cause infertility in Africa.
This article will seek to verify the major claims he made in the video.
Meanwhile, GhanaFact found that the video was circulated on X by the @Africahub_ account, and had been shared 2.7k times, liked 5.6k and gathered 274 replies.
A snippet of the video shared on an X account garnered a lot of interaction
GhanaFact noted that the video is old and keeps circulating on social media platforms by anti-vaxxer groups to undermine the efficacy and effectiveness of vaccines thus boosting vaccine hesitancy.
This fact-check report seeks to verify the claims made in the viral video.
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