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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Melody Schreiber

Controversial US study on hepatitis B vaccines in Africa ‘cancelled’

a person holding a vaccine canister
A hepatitis B vaccine in Atlanta, Georgia, on 29 September 2023. Photograph: Alyssa Pointer for The Washington Post via Getty Images

The controversial US-funded study on hepatitis B vaccines among newborns in Guinea-Bissau has been halted, according to Yap Boum, a senior official at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

“The study has been cancelled,” Boum told journalists at a press conference on Thursday morning.

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