No, it's not just in Third World countries, where it's used for leprosy. A related drug is used in this country for a form of blood cancer.Off tangent, a family friend (loosely) is an oncologist who sells Thalidomide as a stage 4 Cancer drug to third world countries where it is not banned. Apparently it's still one of the biggest selling drugs worldwide, madness.
Feel very awkward talking to him, with my views on things.
He thinks it's fine, me not so much.
http://www.who.int/lep/research/thalidomide/en/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_analogs_of_thalidomide