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...

LAGOS TO PARTNER EKITI STATE ON LAW REFORMS.#PRESS RELEASE.

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     Lagos State Government has expressed readiness to partner with its Ekiti State counterpart to exchange ideas on law reforms and other areas of public jurisprudence.
The State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem disclosed this on Thursday while welcoming a delegation on working visit from Ekiti State Ministry of Justice to the Ministry at Alausa, Ikeja.
Kazeem, represented by the State’s Solicitor-General/Permanent Secretary, Mrs. Funlola Odunlami said the Lagos State government was always ready and willing to partner others to help improve the judicial system in the country.
Earlier, the delegation from Ekiti State led by the State’s Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Olawale Fapohunda said the purpose of the visit was to tap from the experience of Lagos State Ministry of Justice in the area of Domestic Violence, Prosecution methods and other judicial matters.
He explained that the contingent was sent by the State Government to understudy the Lagos State’s litigation processes, its advisory services and other areas that can advance Ekiti State’s judicial system.
Fapohunda expressed satisfaction with the already existing developmental relationship and cooperation between the two States, saying that the visit will serve as an eye-opener to Ekiti in its dispensation of justice to the citizens of the State.
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