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...

KADUNA IS DIRTIER THAN EVER- PDP LEADER, MUHAMMED KADADE QUESTIONS ALLEGED DECLINE IN KADUNA'S CLEANLINESS. (PHOTO).


 Kaduna Is Dirtier Than Ever – PDP Youth Leader, Muhammed Kadade Questions Alleged Decline In Kaduna’s Cleanliness


The National Youth Leader of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Muhammad Kadade Suleiman, has raised concerns over the alleged decline in cleanliness across Kaduna State, questioning the management of the Kaduna State Environmental Protection Authority.


In a Facebook post, Suleiman compared the current state of the environment to Agbogbloshie, a well-known waste-ridden area in Ghana, and called for improved sanitation efforts.


"Please, who is heading the Kaduna State Environmental Protection Authority? The state is so dirty now. Kaduna State, which used to be very clean, can now be seen as dirty as Agbogbloshie. Very unfortunate!" he said.

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