{"id":11169,"date":"2026-01-07T19:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T01:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11169"},"modified":"2026-01-07T19:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T01:10:20","slug":"controversial-us-backed-vaccination-study-begins-in-guinea-bissau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/01\/07\/controversial-us-backed-vaccination-study-begins-in-guinea-bissau\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial US-Backed Vaccination Study Begins in Guinea-Bissau"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/healthpolicy-watch.news\/controversial-us-backed-vaccination-study-begins-in-guinea-bissau\/\">Health Policy Watch<\/a> The US government-funded trial on the timing of hepatitis B vaccinations, which will delay vaccination for up to 7,000 newborns in Guinea-Bissau, started this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded a controversial Danish research group a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/public-inspection.federalregister.gov\/2025-23245.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\",6 million five-year grant, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">,6 million five-year grant<\/a>&nbsp;to study the \u201coptimal timing and delivery of monovalent hepatitis B vaccinations on newborns in Guinea-Bissau\u201d,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/public-inspection.federalregister.gov\/2025-23245.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"according to, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to<\/a>&nbsp;the US Health and Human Services\u2019 (HHS) federal register.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trial aims to enrol 14,000 newborns in a \u201crandomized controlled trial to assess the effects of neonatal Hepatitis B vaccination on early-life mortality, morbidity, and long-term developmental outcomes\u201d, according to HHS register.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Half of the babies will get vaccinated at birth, while the other half will get vaccinated six weeks later.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/publications\/i\/item\/9789241509831\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"recommended, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recommended<\/a>&nbsp;hepatitis B vaccinations since 1992, and universal birth vaccinations from 2009. The vaccination is usually given as a series of three or four injections, and several clinical trials have also established the best intervals for the vaccinations.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"pRheWktRgaJZ b\"><!-- pRheWktRgaJZ b --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Policy Watch The US government-funded trial on the timing of hepatitis B vaccinations, which will delay vaccination for up to 7,000 newborns in Guinea-Bissau, started this week. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded a controversial Danish research group a&nbsp;,6 million five-year grant&nbsp;to study the \u201coptimal timing and delivery of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11170,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11169\/revisions\/11170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}