PARIS, November 3, 2009 (AFP) – For the first time, the mayor of Paris launched a campaign to prevent the dangers of whitening black skin, with posters on billboards Decaux, a cartoon “Ebony Beauty” and a educational booklet on the dangers of creams for clarification.
Focused primarily on the areas affected by this phenomenon (eighteenth, nineteenth and tenth districts), this campaign was launched Tuesday with a press conference in the neighborhood of La Goutte d’Or (XVIII), for, as the deputy mayor ( PS) eighteenth Daniel Vaillant, pull an alarm.
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According to the mayor of Paris, about 20% of women of African origin living in Paris used drugs lighteners with hydroquinone and topical corticosteroids to the deleterious effects: besides the risk of burns, these products are often sold on the internet or diverted from their medical use, can cause acne, spots, hirsutism, striae, diabetes etc..
“We try to be at the forefront of public health,” said the press on Tuesday Jean-Marie Le Guen, Deputy Public Health and relationships with the AP-HP.
Ian Brossat, chairman of the Communist Council of Paris, who had originally wanted this campaign a year ago, argued the side “precursor” of the approach of the Paris municipality.
Dr. Antoine Petit, dermatologist at the Hôpital Saint-Louis, stressed the universality of the practice both in West Africa, in Central Africa, South Africa or India.
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