{"id":10405,"date":"2026-02-11T23:03:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/hepatitis-b-vaccine-trial-guinea-bissau-ethics-questioned\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:03:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:03:02","slug":"hepatitis-b-vaccine-trial-guinea-bissau-ethics-questioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/hepatitis-b-vaccine-trial-guinea-bissau-ethics-questioned\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO director-general calls plans for U.S.-funded vaccine trial \u2018unethical\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    WHO director-general calls plans for U.S.-funded vaccine trial \u2018unethical\u2019<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The director-general of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that a U.S.-funded study of the hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau would be \u201cunethical\u201d if it proceeds as planned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, a sovereign country can decide whatever they want, but as far as WHO\u2019s position is concerned, it\u2019s unethical to proceed with this study,\u201d Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a WHO news conference.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/02\/11\/hepatitis-b-vaccine-trial-guinea-bissau-ethics-questioned\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Helen Branswell<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/02\/11\/hepatitis-b-vaccine-trial-guinea-bissau-ethics-questioned\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO director-general calls plans for U.S.-funded vaccine trial \u2018unethical\u2019 The director-general of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that a U.S.-funded study of the hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau would be \u201cunethical\u201d if it proceeds as planned. \u201cOf course, a sovereign country can decide whatever they want, but as far as WHO\u2019s position is concerned, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2540,1428,4640,2180,2195],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-10405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-health","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-public-health","category-vaccines","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}