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...

NAF C-130 AIRCRAFT AIRLIFT AFMS/AFGMS JOS STUDENTS TO VARIOUS STATES ACROSS NIGERIA FOR HOLIDAYS. (PHOTOS). #PRESS RELEASE.


 NAF C-130 AIRCRAFT AIRLIFT AFMS/AFGMS JOS STUDENTS TO VARIOUS STATES ACROSS NIGERIA FOR HOLIDAYS



In a move to ensure the safe arrival of its students back home for the holidays with their parents and families,  the Chief of the Air Staff,  Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar recently approved the airlift of students of Air Force Military School (AFMS) and Air Force Girls Military School AFGMS) both situated in Jos  Plateau State, to various states across the nation. The airlift, which was conducted using the C-130 heavy lift aircraft, commenced on 3 August 24. In total, 582 students of AFMS and AFGMS were safely airlifted from Jos to various parts of the country, including Abuja, Enugu, Ilorin, Kaduna, Kano, Markurdi, Port Harcourt, Lagos and Yola for the long vacation holidays. 


Arrangements have also been emplaced to ensure their airlift back to Jos at the end of the holidays.


Edward Gabkwet 

Air Vice Marshal 

Director of Public Relations and Information 

Nigerian Air Force 


9 August 2024.

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