Why a US-funded vaccine trial on babies was cancelled in Guinea-Bissau
Some public health experts argued that the proposed trial raised broader questions about whether vulnerable populations in African countries were being asked to take risks that researchers would not accept in wealthier countries.
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[Claude] Both reports cover the same cancelled US-funded Guinea-Bissau infant hepatitis vaccine trial as Report 1, and neither states facts that conflict with it.
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