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...

GOVT'S URGED TO ENCOURAGE SKILLS AT BASIC EDUCATION LEVEL. (PHOTOS).

Govt's Urged To Encourage  Skills At Basic Education Level

Government at all levels have been urged to encourage computer technology skills training at basic  education level to make learning more attractive to the students.

An expert in computer technology,Okpe Barthlomew made the call while speaking at a technology skills training for Over five hundred Children at Karumo in Ilorin East local governments area of Kwara state.

According to him  the introduction of  skills training  into  school curriculum for the children will make education attractive .

Okpe said the idea of the training is to make the students see education differently and provide them the opportunity to use the computer technology to develop themselves.
                        
He  explained that the programme will empower about one hundred thousand children ,and women  across the country with relevant technological skills to prepare them for the future and make them self reliant.

In a remark the President,Balogun Gambari Youth Movement,Abdulrahman said the skills acquisition training will impact positively on the lives of the children and women in the community.

In his address a consultant at the training ,Mr Ayo Olanipekun said the training is expected to cover the sixteen local governments across the state.

He urged the community leaders to constitute a community management team to ensure sustainability of the programme.

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