"The Trump administration has indicated that it will fund a $1.6m study on hepatitis B vaccination of newborns in the west African country of Guinea-Bissau, where nearly one in five adults live with the virus a move that researchers call highly unethical and extremely risky. The news follows an official change in recommendations on hepatitis B vaccines at birth from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which called the shots an individual decision,"
"It is part of sweeping changes to childhood immunizations by the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, which have global repercussions including cutting funding for programs that bring vaccines to countries around the world. He has a fixed, immutable belief that vaccines cause harm, said Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center and an attending physician at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He will do everything he can to try and prove that."
The US plans to fund a $1.6m study of hepatitis B vaccination of newborns in Guinea-Bissau, where nearly one in five adults carry the virus. The CDC changed its birth-dose recommendation to an individual decision despite decades of safe, effective vaccination and no evidence of harm. US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has enacted broad changes to childhood immunization policy and cut funding to global programs, including Gavi, citing a controversial 2018 study. Experts describe the planned study as unethical, risky, and potentially neocolonialist, warning it could expand global mistrust of US public health and science.
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