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...

ENUGU LAUNCHES 100 CNG BUSES TO CREATE 20,000 JOBS . (PHOTO).


 ENUGU LAUNCHES 100 CNG BUSES TO CREATE 20,000 JOBS 


Gov. Peter Mbah of Enugu State rolled out 100 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses on Thursday with a view to creating new 20,000 jobs. 


The governor launched the buses while inaugurating the New Enugu Transport Management System and five modern bus terminals at Holy Ghost, Gariki, Abakpa and Nsukka.


Mbah said Enugu's GDP will grow to $30 billion in the next six years with the transportation overhaul in the state. He said this will uplift the economy and dignify the living standards of the people.


According to him, the projects will provide the people with cheaper, accessible and seamless movement as other infrastructure meant to support the projects and the new system are already in place.

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