The Trump administration is facing condemnation over a medical study in West Africa that is being condemned as unethical and reminiscent of the infamous “Tuskegee Experiment.

The U.S. is giving $1.6 million to researchers to study how the hepatitis B vaccine affects newborns in Guinea-Bissau. Local officials say the trial is suspended. U.S. officials say that's inaccurate.

So far, this all tracks perfectly with the many concerns presented when Robert Kennedy Jr. was nominated to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Update: A senior official at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that the study has been ...

Brown is the vice president of medical affairs and patient advocacy at Southern Research and project lead for Catalyst. Sodeke is the resident bioethicist and professor of bioethics at the Center for ...

Update: A senior official at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that the study has been cancelled. The Trump administration’s Centers for Disease Control and ...