Officials at the US Department of Health and Human Services, which awarded funding for the controversial study, say it will proceed as planned. Public-health authorities in Guinea-Bissau say that they ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Guinea-Bissau is suspending a Trump administration-backed hepatitis B vaccine study on newborns in the West African country, pending an ethical review, the health minister said ...

Andrew Joseph covers health, medicine, and the biopharma industry in Europe. You can reach Andrew on Signal at drewqjoseph.71. Plans for a controversial U.S.-funded hepatitis B vaccine study in Guinea ...

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — Guinea-Bissau's military junta has set a date for new elections following its takeover late last year, according to a statement by the junta's leader on Wednesday. In a ...

A U.S.-backed study set to examine the overall health effects of hepatitis B vaccine dose timing on some 14,000 infants in the West African country of Guinea-Bissau has raised ethics concerns among ...

A Nigerian law firm has filed a case at the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice seeking the release of Domingos Simões Pereira, Guinea-Bissau’s opposition leader and former parliamentary speaker, along ...

The recent award of a $1.6 million unsolicited, single-source grant to the Bandim Health Project for a clinical trial in the impoverished West African country of Guinea-Bissau marks a significant ...

DAKAR, Senegal — The president of Guinea-Bissau spent years building a political network that stretched from West Africa to Paris and beyond. This year alone, he was hosted at the White House and the ...

Then-President Umaro Sissoco Embalo casts his votes at a polling station during presidential and legislative elections in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, Nov. 23, 2025 (Presidency of the Republic of ...

Just over a week after seizing power, Guinea Bissau’s military says it has established a National Transitional Council.

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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — In West Africa’s latest military takeover, soldiers in Guinea-Bissau followed up a disputed presidential election by seizing power last week in what some critics allege was a ...