Guinea-Bissau News News Guinea-Bissau » Health: Guinea-Bissau halts US-backed hepatitis B newborn study amid global ethical backlash
A contentious, United States-funded clinical trial involving newborns in Guinea-Bissau has been halted following mounting concerns over bioethics, coercive consent and the dangers of deliberately ...
News Guinea-Bissau » Health: Cops raid office of RFK Jr. allies planning “unethical” vaccine trial on babies
Police in Guinea-Bissau raided the offices of Danish researchers on Monday, seizing doses of hepatitis B vaccine intended for a vaccine trial for newborns. International health experts have called the ...
News Guinea-Bissau » Health: US-backed vaccine trial on babies canceled after international outcry
The World Health Organization and many outside experts have sharply disagreed with Stabell Benn and her colleagues on the trial’s justifications and design. It has been widely decried as “unethical” ...
News Guinea-Bissau » Health: Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study Championed by RFK Jr. Won't Proceed
After months of reporting by Rolling Stone, a trial declared ‘unethical' by WHO will not move forward ...
News Guinea-Bissau » Health: RFK Jr’s ‘deities of vaccine research’ raided by police in Guinea-Bissau
Police seize doses of hepatitis B vaccine from people at center of dispute over research on African newborns ...
News Guinea-Bissau » Health: Guinea-Bissau denies it has approved controversial vaccine trial in newborns
Health minister says government ‘did not authorize’ Danish-led hepatitis B trial in babies backed by RFK Jr ...
News Guinea-Bissau » Health: Guinea-Bissau HepB birth-dose vaccine trial: still unethical
A controversial trial in which a birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine would be withheld from half the enrolled newborn children has been given ethical approval, according to the Center for Infectious ...
News Guinea-Bissau » Health: US-Backed Hepatitis B Vaccine Trial Won’t Be Happening, Researcher Says
The announcement came two days after police in Guinea-Bissau said they seized hepatitis B vaccine doses from the Bandim Health Project in Bissau. Police said the seizure was part of an investigation, ...
News Guinea-Bissau » Health: Hepatitis B Guinea-Bissau trial: Researchers behind controversial study weigh in as confusion reigns over its fate
Danish researchers behind a controversial study of hepatitis B vaccination in Guinea-Bissau have defended their plan to explore any potential negative consequences of the jab. Controversy regarding ...
News Guinea-Bissau » Health: RFK Jr-backed hep B researchers face police raid in Guinea-Bissau: Why the newborn vaccine trial is controversial
The controversial trial aims to delay hepatitis B vaccination for half of 14,000 newborns by six weeks, despite WHO recommendations to administer the vaccine within 24 hours of birth to prevent mother ...
News Guinea-Bissau » Health: The U.S. Health Research Project Rejected by Guinea Bissau was Absurd and Deadly
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), led by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in December 2025 announced a research project involving the hepatitis B vaccine that would take ...
News Guinea-Bissau » Health: Guinea-Bissau chosen to pilot ECOWAS community health policy
Guinea-Bissau is taking the lead in efforts to put a new ECOWAS regional community health policy into practice, with the West African Health Organisation (WAHO) beginning high-level talks with the ...