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...

ANAMBRA BILLIONAIRA DR COSMAS MADUKA BURIES WIFE TODAY.{PHOTOS}


Government of Anambra State has sympathised with the family of Dr. Cosmas Maduka, Chairman of  Coscharis Group, over the loss of their wife, late Mrs Charity Nchedo Maduka, Nee Ikedife.


Governor Willie Obiano who attended the funeral Mass held at the Maduka residence, Coscharis Street, Umudim, Nnewi, urged the family to bear the loss with hope.


Before her demise  the late Mrs Maduka, aged 63, strongly spearheaded administrative, legal, works, maintainance and export teams  of the Coscharis Consortium.

May God rest her precious soul in His bossom.

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