GUINEA-BISSAU STOPS VACCINE STUDY FUNDED BY TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. (PHOTO).

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 Guinea-Bissau stops vaccine study funded by Trump administration Guinea-Bissau's foreign minister has said his government has stopped a study funded by the Trump administration aiming to evaluate side effects of the life-saving hepatitis B vaccine, including any links to autism. The West African country, one of the region's poorest, has high rates of hepatitis B, and the prospective study had drawn an outcry from scientists and international health bodies because only half the newborns in the trial would get the vaccine at birth. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said it was not ethical. Guinea-Bissau last month suspended the trial pending an ethical review. Critics had said it was being used to test theories linking vaccines to autism, long promoted by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr but contradicted by scientific evidence. Foreign Minister Joao Bernardo Vieira said in an interview on Tuesday that the study had been closed, citing concer...

NIGERIA FIRST LADY AISHA BUHARI,CONSOLES VICTIMS OF YOLA BOMB BLAST.

               Nigeria first lady Aisha Buhari,was represented by Dr Zainab Nyao,as they console victims of Yola bomb blast,who are receiving treatment at the Specialist Hospital and Federal Medical Centre,Yola.Aisha Buhari,Condemmed the incident and wished the victims speedy recovery Dr Zainab Nyako said unbehalf of the first lady that ''The First lady said i should tell you that she was deeply touched by this bomb incident and other related killings in neigbouring states,and will continue to pray for a speedy and last solution''.Dr Bala Saidu,the Chief Medical Director,Yola Specialist Hospital,and Dr Bemi Kala,the Head,Clinical Services,Federal Medical Centre,received the first lady's representative in their Hospital.They thanked Aisha Buhari for her concern and solicited for more support from individuals and voluntary organisations.

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