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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...
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LAGOS UNVEILS HOUSING POLICY TODAY AT EPE,FOR THE BENEFIT OF LOW INCOME EARNERS,POOR MASSES.

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Image result for ambode                                In fulfilment of his campaign promise that his administration would come up with a new housing policy that will make all residents in the State have access to shelter irrepective of their social status,tribe or income,Lagos State Government has uveiled affordable housing units spread across the three Senatorial Districts.Speaking at the unveiling of the new housing policy in Epe,Governor Akinwunmi Ambode stated that the policy was in line with the set objectives of his adminstration to make life more comfortable and easy for all Lagosians irrespective of their status,tribe or level of income.He said the initiative,tagged: ''Rent-To-Own and Rental Husing Policy'' represented an improvement on the Lagos Home Ownership Mortgage Scheme inherited from the previous administration,under which a beneficiary was required to make an initial payment of 30% as equity contribution with monthly payment of the balance spread over a period of 10 years.The Governor,who was represented at the event by his Deputy,Dr. Idiat Oluranti Adebule expressed happiness that the new housing policy would benefit low income earners,traders and the general masses,adding that the feedback from from the general public on the previous Lagos Home Ownership Mortgage Scheme indicated that there was a need to review the former policy such that more people will have the opportunity to participate in the process.Ambode disclosed that government has put necessary measures in place to ensure total transparency in the procedure and allocation of flats to prospective owners,warning members of the public to follow the normal guideline and not pay a dime to any individual or agent as bribe,stating that the scheme is aimed at alleviating the housing problem of the masses and not a way of extorting them.''I want to assure the people of Lagos State that the selection process will be credible,fair and transparent,you therefore don't need to know anyone in government to apply for the home ownership programme'', he emphasised.
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