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...

I DON'T GO INTO GUTTERS WITH PEOPLE - SEYI MAKINDE. (PHOTO).


 I DON'T GO INTO GUTTERS WITH PEOPLE - SEYI MAKINDE


Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has revealed that he does not fight dirty and that he does not go into gutters with critics or opponents.


Governor Makinde stated this after the South-West zoning consultative summit of the PDP held in Lagos in Thursday.


“Personally, when people go low or go into the gutters, I don’t go with them," he said. "Some people are now going into the gutters. We will reach out to them. That is democracy.


“I can disagree with people, but there shouldn’t be anything personal here. It should be about what we are giving to Nigerians because they are watching.”

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