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...

SUDAN PEACE TALKS IN SWITZERLAND AIM TO OPEN HUMANITARIAN CORRIDORS. (PHOTO).


 Sudan Peace Talks in Switzerland Aim to Open Humanitarian Corridors


Efforts are underway in Switzerland to open three crucial humanitarian corridors to deliver urgently needed food to millions in war-ravaged Sudan.


 According to US Special Envoy Tom Perriello, the talks could lead to the immediate opening of the vital Adre crossing from Chad, where 100 trucks are already on standby.


 If successful, these routes would provide life-saving aid to 20 million people currently cut off from food and medicine.


 Since civil war broke out in Sudan in April of last year, the humanitarian crisis has escalated dramatically, with over 25 million people now facing severe hunger, according to UN agencies.

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