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Detailed explanation-1: -Q. Henrietta Lacks, who received WHO Director-General’s Award, was from which country? Notes: The Chief of the World Health Organisation honored the late Henrietta Lacks with the Director-General award. She an American woman whose cancer cells were taken without her knowledge during the 1950s.

Detailed explanation-2: -Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general for the World Health Organization who has led it through the COVID-19 pandemic, will be awarded the Thomas Francis Jr.

Detailed explanation-3: -“What happened to Henrietta was wrong, ” Tedros said during a special ceremony at WHO Geneva headquarters before handing the Director-General’s Award for Henrietta Lacks to her 87-year-old son Lawrence Lacks as several of her other descendants looked on. Lacks died of cervical cancer on October 4, 1951 at age 31.

Detailed explanation-4: -“In honouring Henrietta Lacks, WHO acknowledges the importance of reckoning with past scientific injustices, and advancing racial equity in health and science, ” Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement.

Detailed explanation-5: -Seeger, attorneys representing Lacks’ estate, her family has not received any compensation for the use of her cells by biotech or pharmaceutical companies since they were harvested.