Guinea-Bissau

US-Funded Baby Vaccine Trial in Guinea-Bissau Cancelled After Ethical Backlash

A US-funded vaccine trial involving infants in Guinea-Bissau has been cancelled after drawing sharp criticism from bioethicists, activists and local observers who called the design unethical and neocolonial. The dispute centered on the decision to withhold the vaccine from half the babies in the study, a practice critics said exposed a profound imbalance of risk and benefit in one of the world’s poorest countries.